Word: utrillo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the late Werner Heldt was called "the Utrillo of Berlin," a tag that enraged him all the more because it was based on the shallow observation that both he and Utrillo painted city streets. Both also drank. Yet that deprecatory comparison was about the measure of Heldt's renown at the time of his death seven years ago. This week Heldt is enjoying a sudden spurt of fame as the key figure of a new, nonabstract "Berlin School." The critical applause comes from a show in Wiesbaden of the collection of rich Machine-tool Maker Kurt Brandes...
With fake Utrillos appearing on the market almost daily, the French impressionist's splenetic widow, Lucie Valore Utrillo, 63, happily incinerated 30 recently uncovered forgeries in the garden of her Montmartre home. While Lucie grandly called the ten-minute conflagration the salvation of her henpecked husband's reputation, a few witnesses cattily concluded that she was just trying to protect the market value of her collection (a recent Utrillo auction price: $52,000), insisted that the longtime alcoholic painter-in order to earn the purchase price of more liquor than his wife allowed him-had moonlighted a great...
...Dilworth's and an official in his administration. Like the mayor, City Controller Alexander Hemphill, 40, is a well-heeled blueblood with an Ivy League background (University of Pennsylvania '43). The father of seven, he is the godfather of a Dilworth grandchild, and a fancier of Utrillo and Rouault prints. He also takes his watchdog job as city controller seriously -so seriously that when he decided to run for election in 1957, Dilworth tried to persuade him to withdraw. Says Hemphill: "I just told him to go to hell...
...exhibit (its title: "Contemporary Art for Young Collectors"), bought $22,000 worth of art from the St. Louis City Art Museum. Manhattan's Galerie Felix Vercel summed up the nationwide trend by advertising a show of "Big Names in Small Sizes." The names were indeed big - Pissaro and Utrillo - and the pastels were indeed small; the prices were...
...hinged within reach and who uses an automatic feeder so that he doesn't have to stop driving. One of Voyage's greatest assets stems from Lamorisse's color technique (he photographs in Eastman color and prints on Technicolor stock), which gives his film a Utrillo-like, ethereal aura...