Word: utrillo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next to Roth himself, his biggest fans are his subjects. Most of them-Picasso, Utrillo, Giacometti, Cocteau, Dufy, Leger, Milhaud-gave Roth nearly all the time he needed to make his pictures. The result: his portraits have a quality that seems to capture a sense of his subjects' work as well as their personalities...
Berserk & Brilliant. In Paris, he met an art dealer friend who offered to introduce him to Utrillo. "So I went out to Utrillo's house," he explained. "We sat around and talked, and pretty soon I was taking pictures." Utrillo liked the pictures and introduced Roth to Vlaminck -and it went on from there...
...Utrillo: "I was able to capture all the violence and the pathos of his life. We don't know many men who started getting drunk when they were only eight months old.* Today, Utrillo is either asleep, drunk or berserk. If it weren't for Lucie Valore [TIME, Aug. 25], he'd be dead. He told me: 'I hate my house. It's full of bourgeois furniture and servants. One day I'm going to run away and go back to Montmartre where I belong.' It was the saddest thing...
...London last week, at an exhibition of French primitives, Bombois' pictures were getting most of the attention. He had sent a portrait, robust circus scenes, romantic riverscapes. His most talked-about painting was Utrillo Kissing His Prayer Book, which shows the famed painter in a white coat, clutching a black prayer book as he faces a wooden crucifix; in the background is a black, star-speckled sky. Most British critics had pleasant things to say about burly old (69) Bombois and his innocent simplicity. Art News & Review. "Bombois is the hero of this exhibition . . . [Utrillo] is an extraordinary piece...
...twelve paintings on show, two were already sold (Utrillo went for ?900). Back in Paris, Camille Bombois was pleased but puzzled. Said he: "After all, I am just a barbouilleur [dauber], and there are lots of artists who paint better than I do . . ." One who heartily agreed with him was Painter Maurice Utrillo's peppery wife, Lucie Valore, who had seen Bombois' painting of her husband in a Paris gallery and sent Bombois an indignant protest: "The expression on Utrillo's face is too demoniacal, and you have painted his nose much...