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Socks & Tabletops. The son of a St. Petersburg banker, Leonid started to draw, he says, "on the lap of my mother." He fled from the Bolsheviks to Paris, studied art there and began, after a 1926 vacation at St. Tropez, to paint the seashore scenes that have occupied him ever since...
...town of Saint-Tropez, with tall pink and ocher houses overlooking the protected bay where in peacetime the British Mediterranean Fleet used to anchor on its annual vacation cruise, was captured by a parachute unit dropped there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes...
Greatest surprise was the award of the $1,500 first prize to France's André Dunoyer de Segonzac for a sketchy landscape of St. Tropez. Painter de Segonzac, 49, is an important artist, has won the gratitude of Riviera realtors by first discovering the possibilities of the Gulf of St. Tropez in 1906. But few critics could find anything in this particular canvas to lift it above any one of 30 or 40 others in the show...