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DAMNED OLD CRANK: A SELF-PORTRAIT OF E. W. SCRIPPS (259 pp.)-Edited by Charles R. McCabe-Harper...
...show is of a beautiful five-year-old in a sailor suit, meant to be Vertès himself. At 55, he looks like a heavy-set Mephisto, whose brow, nose and mouth form three emphatic Vs. "My friends," Vertès admits, "smile a little at my self-portrait and say very politely, 'I don't think it's too much...
There is fascination and topical interest in Napoleon's hodgepodge. Back of every chapter lies the self-portrait of a dictator who, like his successors of the present century, made the so-called "logic" of a situation his only criterion of right & wrong. His smug account of an episode during his conquest of Italy...
Among the paintings listed in the will are: "The Rehearsal," by Degas; "Nature a la Commode," by Cezanne; "The Racetrack at Deauville," by Dufy; "Poemes Barbares," by Gaugin; "Le Skating," by Manet; "Apples," by Matisse; and Van Gogh's self-portrait...
...could never have painted The Cry (a canvas bulging with Kafka-like horror which he did at 30), but neither could the young drunk have painted the Self-Portrait Between the Clock and the Bed that Munch did four years before his death. That picture of a human being cornered by old age would stand as one of his finest, freshest works...