Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went for $106,000, but the main attraction of the evening was Sarlie's 29 Picassos-the largest number ever put on the block at one time. Highest price for a single canvas was the $134,000 paid by Swedish Collector Carl-Bertel Nathhorst for Femme Accroupie, a somber painting of Picasso's "blue" period. And by evening's end, Sotheby's had broken another record: the Picassos brought in $636,720, the biggest single sale of a living artist. Between the Picassos, ten Modiglianis and an assortment of Crises, Soutines, Braques, Rouaults and one Matisse...
...women from 41 nations. Blonde-tressed Norwegians in embroidered blue skirts mingled with black-haired Ghanaians in flowing brown and gold robes. Swiss Frauen sported delicate lace caps, and Icelanders regally balanced gold diadems with trailing white veils. Here and there through the colorful throng could be seen the somber black habit of a nun. Remarkably little feminine chatter disturbed the solemnity of the occasion: the twelfth International Congress of Midwives...
Last week Le Monde's sales indicated a period somewhere between uncertainty and crisis. Contained in Le Monde's 16 somber pages were reports on worldly woes, from the U.N.-to the Congo. But it was an article near the bottom of Page One that commanded the French citizen's closest attention. Signed by "Sirius," the piece predicted that unless Charles de Gaulle soon ends the Algerian war, France will plunge back into chaos worse than that from which he rescued...
...exhibit from 1914, one of the painter as Saint Sebastian (typical of Schiele's persecution complex), and the other an oil in which Schiele appears with deep-set eyes and a wan, bony countenance. As Death, he reaches out towards his model who shrinks away into the somber, slightly cubist background...
...Other people in their cups shouted and brawled, but these, with every glass and every bottle, sank deeper into immobility and silence . . . Globov liked these people-kindly men of whom perhaps half the world was terrified . . . How deluded was the mercenary Western press whose scribblers portrayed these men as somber villains. In reality they couldn't be nicer . . . One senior interrogator, employed in cases of the utmost gravity, used his leisure knitting gloves and embroidering doilies...