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...from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head of a Youth (see cut), and Edouard Manet's brush sketch for his great painting Olympia...
...Tolnay's text is rich with quotations, such as that attributed to Delacroix: "If you are not accomplished enough to make a sketch of a man in midair, falling out of a window, in the time it takes him to travel from the fourth floor to the ground, you will never be able to do great work." But few matters in the text are more impressive than de Tolnay's own paragraphs, packed with sound information, flecked with illumination, and free from crotchets. Characteristic is his discussion of Pisanello's place in history...
...writing gave the impression that it lacked substance, his especial gift, intuitive, sympathetic, has come into its own. The ceremoniousness and hospitality of the Latin American mind are his, as is its sudden poetic insights, its brilliant intellectual discoveries that are tossed aside, like a master artist's sketch, as soon as they are made...
...Belgians. In the London tabloid Daily Sketch, which is more given to scandal than to politics, appeared a political piece. It said that Belgium, in exchange for certain guarantees, might become a member of the Commonwealth. The story was a slightly garbled version of a speech by Antoine Delfosse, Belgian Minister of Information. Other Belgian officials, who knew they could make no such bargain until their people were free to approve, or disapprove, were horrified...
...Yorker Thurber is known as Old Thurber. He pooh-poohs the tendency of art critics to breathe his name with that of Matisse and Picasso. But his drawings have long been taken seriously by advanced students of fantasy, and one sketch of a lady's alcoholic visions was hung (under the heading of Miracles and Anomalies) at the outstanding Fantastic Art-Dada-Surrealism show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Old Thurber, anything but pompous, once described himself as follows...