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...Farge convinced James that he should write rather than paint, then used his brother, Philosopher William, as the model for St. John in an uncompleted altarpiece. La Farge also succeeded in smuggling a touch of the Renaissance back to the U.S., revived the art of stained glass, and visited Tahiti with sketchbook in hand before Gauguin got there. Unlike many of his well-educated countrymen, such as his contemporary Whistler, who became expatriates, La Farge put his talents to embellishing the barren American cultural scene...
Overwhelmed with commissions in later life, he took off in 1890 for "a year of recreation and idleness" in the South Seas, visited Samoa, Fiji and Tahiti. His quick sketches, executed on the spot, caught the gaiety and innocence of an as yet unspoiled paradise with verve and masterly handling of light and flashing color. He just missed meeting Gauguin in Tahiti. In practice, La Farge was too much the meticulous mandarin (he loathed shaking hands with strangers) to refer to Gauguin other than as the "wild Frenchman." But his artist's eye easily bridged the gulf...
This week the club opens for the season five of its 18 summer "villages," mostly scattered around the Mediterranean (one village is far away in the Pacific on Tahiti). It also runs eleven winter ski resorts. Among them, they grossed $16 million, for a profit of $746,870, last year, and the 1966 gross is expected to be $20 million...
...instance, go and spend two weeks on the Greek island of Corfu for $210, which is $70 less than the regular round-trip tourist air fare from Paris (an off-season third week is thrown in free). Two weeks at the Djerba, Tunisia, village costs $200. Three weeks in Tahiti costs $1,120-or $660 less than the economy air fare from Paris. Group charter travel, a huge turnover and the unfancy villages make profits at these prices...
GAUGUIN IN THE SOUTH SEAS, by Bengt Danielsson. In a levelheaded account of Gauguin's exile years in Tahiti and the neighboring Marquesas, Anthropologist Danielsson perceives the man without debasing the artist...