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Back in April 1937, a peasant named Jean Gonon was doing his spring plowing on a farm not far from Lyon, when he uncovered a figure of Venus. Features and limbs were damaged, but otherwise the figure, a gentle drape about its hips, was in beautiful shape. Officials examined it, pronounced it authentic Greek, and Farmer Gonon made money exhibiting...
Last month there popped up at St. Etienne a dour, baldish, 31-year-old Italian sculptor named Francesco Cremonese, who swore that the Venus was his. He completed it, he said, in 1936, buried it because nobody paid attention to his work, hoping to make a name for himself when...
...School Girls and Robert Philipp's Dust to Dust, which won honorable mention at the Carnegie International last autumn (TIME, Oct. 25), showing bowed, blackrobed, firmly painted figures before an open grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced the work of a promising, 23-year-old, self-taught Syrian of New Orleans, Leon Koury, with a competent Negro figure, Compress Worker...
...Venus Flytrap and the Pitcher plant are the two insect eating varieties in the collection. The former closes its many jaws on juicy morsels of flies and slugs and it gradually absorbs them as its means of sustenance. The latter is more subtle and lazy--it makes no motions. Insects are lured into its pitcher-like growths and are so tangled and dazed by the intricacies within that they never return to daylight. Then there is the strange White Galla plant which spurts water from the tips of its leaves under a bright light...
...lend ye my name, and inspire ye to boot. And besides I'll instruct ye, like me, to intwine The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus' wine...