Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Painter Guille- quin brought 250,000 francs. The Louvre got Durameau's Partie de Cartes aux Bougies for 36,000 francs and Saint Aubin's Rêve for 76,000 francs. Hubert Robert's Vouté reached 8,000 francs. By auction, Durighiello's Venus Accroupie, excavated in Asia Minor, brought 305,500 francs; his Apollon Citharède,113,000 francs...
...resist the decoy of the sidelong smiling fairy whose kiss is death. He rides to his bride in a ballad for strings with a background of contra bass. Learning of her treachery, his laughter whirls in the brasses; exhaustion succeeds; the love cry faints into the sliding enchantments of Venus Yertocordia, to culminate at length in a triumphant orgy of brutal discords. "The finale," said one critic, "is like awakening from a nightmare...
...still mumbling about the probable inhabitability of Mars while his colleagues were concerned with the atomic structures of stars not yet named; but he exploited with marvelous eloquence the romance of the stars. Under the big tent top of heaven he, a circus barker, shouted the seductions of Venus, the deformities of Mercury, the spots, habits, abilities of Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune. He was the jongleur of the Milky...
...symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal, a student marched in wearing the bronze fig leaf around his neck. He made a statue Venus, "an arrangement of planes and curves," also heroic -10 or 12 ft. high. It was exhibited in the Leicester Galleries, London, and for weeks people gathered in front of it and roared with laughter. In 1920, at the same galleries, he exhibited a statue called The Risen Christ. A well-known...
...Sporting Venus. Blanche Sweet retains much of her old charm though her glory of appearance has departed. She is in this endeavor cast as a hard-riding Lady somebody-or-other from Scotland. Her love lies at the feet of a young commoner and is brusquely seized and hurled toward a wicked Prince from the Balkans. The Prince nearly gets her until she discovers that he has been betting with her large estates which he never possessed. Back comes the commoner, rich and forgiving. Ronald Colman in the latter part again indicates his great possibilities...