Word: sert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also in Perpignan popped up Jose Maria Sert, Spain's best known modern mural painter. As Generalissimo Francisco Franco's art representative, he wanted to check over the paintings which may soon -under the Loyalists' own terms-become Rebel Spain's property. Señor Sert declared himself satisfied that the paintings had been taken good care of, that they were all intact. On their nation's art Rebel and Loyalist had agreed...
Fitted out with freshly painted oar and bright red cushions, a gondola owned by the late Prince Alexis Mdivani was auctioned off in Venice. Price: $80. Purchaser: the Prince's sister, Señora José Maria Sert, who overbid a gondolier who wanted to use it as a taxi. Mdivani's onetime wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, was loafing at nearby Lido...
...Barbara Hutton (Countess Haugwitz); in an automobile accident; near Albona, Spain. Seriously injured in the accident was Baroness Maud Thyssen, 28, reported estranged from her husband Baron Heinrich Thyssen. Prince Alexis was rushing Bareness Thyssen from the home of his sister Roussadara, wife of Painter José Maria Sert, to catch a train. Found by newshawks in Germany and informed of her onetime husband's death, Countess Haugwitz said: "I am terribly, terribly sorry. I am not surprised. I always felt something like this would happen. He drove like...
...Dean Smith will go the King Albert Memorial Medal designed by dark, handsome "Princess" Roussadara Mdivani, wife of Painter José Maria Sert...
...evening last week, several hundred guests were dining beneath the serene gold and plum-colored Sert murals of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, secure in the knowledge that their slightest whims would be instantly accommodated by the precise and fluent machinery of the nation's best-known hotel. Fifteen minutes later something went wrong. The hors d'oeuvres ceased to arrive. Famed Oscar's dishes failed to appear. Wine bottles stopped popping. The Waldorf, that pillar of bourgeois good-living, had temporarily ceased to function. With a feeling akin to that felt in Moscow, March...