Word: silverpointed
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...suave as O'Keeffe but not so austere were the portraits by Russian Pavel Tchelitchew in the swank, palette-shaped Julien Levy Gallery. A studious but fashionable virtuoso, Painter Tchelitchew showed Manhattanites a notable grab bag of tricks, from Byzantine golden backgrounds to the academic delicacies of silverpoint...
...Papal Legate Teodoro Lelli, Bishop of Treviso, accompanied the Lord Bishop of Ostia on a mission to the court of Louis XI of France. There the Legate was sketched by the court artist, Maître Jean Foucquet, who etched his subject's fleshy, self-assured features in silverpoint on a small piece of cream-colored paper. Last week, at Christie, Manson & Woods's famed London salesrooms ("Christie's''), this little picture was auctioned off to Lord Duveen of Millbank, world's No. 1 art agent...
With these and other clues Clark was able to fix at least one dated drawing for every five years of Leonardo's career. The drawings begin vigorously and experimentally, turn precise and dry, explore and finish the possibilities of silverpoint, then drop silverpoint entirely, solve the problems of shading in concave spaces to define forms, turn to red chalk in a bold, open style, then to pen & ink and black chalk, once again with exquisite neatness but with a new heavy deliberation and economy. Finally, as the paralysis began to clamp on the heavy-bearded, 60-year...