Word: utrillo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Society swells and bohemians alike flocked to Foujita's exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss...
Instead of the bare walls and shelves of the old library, the common room boasts baby pink walls, leather chairs and couches, and a liberal sprinkling of original oil paintings. Among these are a Utrillo and three paintings left to the Fogg Museum by the late Allston Burr '89, once an Overseer of the college and donstor of the Varsity Club...
...Trapped in Hollywood by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, Producer Harry Kurnitz detailed "standard equipment" needed by a screenwriter: "A Capehart, a Utrillo, a French poodle, a sun lamp, an exwife, a lawyer (for the ex-wife), an antique Chippendale gag file, some cashmere underdrawers, an empty box at the Hollywood Bowl (it doesn't count if anybody ever sits in it), one friend (preferably getting the same salary he gets)." "A typewriter?" suggested Wilson. Kurnitz shuddered, explained that a writer always dictates...
...Utrillo's Revenge. Tate planned his treat as a show place for living painters. But there were a few reaches into the past by one director, who could not stand the way some living artists were working. Cherubic James Bolivar Manson, who was director from 1930 to 1938, once inspected two lumpish sculptures by Hans Arp and Brancusi at the request of British customs officials and advised them not to classify such horrors as art. (He finally reconsidered and the sculptures were let in.) Manson also once noted in a catalogue that Painter Maurice Utrillo was "a confirmed dipsomaniac...
Could Paris produce a new generation of painters comparable to its aging masters? Matisse, Bonnard and Rouault were all crowding 80, Picasso and Braque were close to 70. Utrillo, Vlaminck and Derain were old too, and out of the swim as well. Surrealism was all but dead. As of last week, only one "group" of painters in Paris had any recognizable form. They were "the twelve."* Nine of the twelve have already had shows this season...