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...Renoir's Venus Victorieuse: 40 million Frenchmen have read, with relief, that the monstrosity pictured in TIME, Oct. 12, is now safely in the good city of Portland, Ore. We, the people of France, do not object to gay, young "bronze creatures" romping around our lawns, as long as they are graceful and lithe of limb. But the heavy, rotund and adipose lady was a clear case for a severe reducing diet and Turkish baths...
...thought you might like to read a few samples. For some reason TIME'S story of the Kinsey Report produced a quantity of poems, several on Artist Artzybasheff's cover portrait of Dr. Kinsey. The theme: the doctor's bow tie sprinkled with the Mirror of Venus symbols, the biologist's sign of female. The writers wanted to know where such ties could be bought. The reply they received...
Though the female of the genus ( To say nothing of the male) Liked the geometric Venus, Kinsey's tie is not for sale...
...Life on the planet Venus...
...same man who created the controversial sculpture of Venus Victorieuse is evidently your favorite among painters, new and old. How do we know? His works have appeared most often in TIME'S "Public Favorites" series. And when readers write us to comment on TIME'S news of art and to ask where they can buy reproductions of paintings, the name they mention most frequently is that of Pierre Auguste Renoir...