Word: sketched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Questioned Canaday: "Why should a pleasant but not at all exceptional sketch of a young girl, a sketch with no signature, no date, shaky pedigree, and so far as I can see no direct kinship to a Degas, be offered as a Degas?" Why should "an only moderately proficient painting called Le Trompeur and a pleasant but unexceptional still-life, without dates, signatures or certifications, be offered as Manets when the best you can say for them with certainty is that in a weak way they share certain characteristics of Manet's art? And when a painting is recognizable...
...sketch for the cover was done from life in the Vatican by Italian Artist Pietro Annigoni (who painted last January's Man of the Year cover of John F. Kennedy). The painter's reaction to the Pope: "So nice, so simple, so direct, so close to you . . . and yet so terribly distant. Even the simplest conversation with him ended with a few words putting you in front of Eternity...
Rudolph Oetker has a lot to make the bankers happy; he collects pictures almost as avidly as companies, has a Frans Hals portrait in his library, and a striking charcoal sketch by Käthe Kollwitz in his headquarters office at Bielefeld. Its title is Aid the Starving, but it seems to reassure the moneymen...
Paul Gulhard, a correspondent for Agence France Presse and for the London Daily Sketch, was shot and killed as brick-throwing students twice charged federal marshals controlling the campus, the Associated Press reported early today...
...From a pen-and-ink sketch drawn on the back of a letter to a friend, probably at about the time he painted Monroe...