Word: vraiment
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...asked if I would pose for Raoul Dufy in his Montmartre atelier for a picture to go into the soon-to-open International Exposition. I gladly accepted, and found that I was to be Archimedes [see cut] in what a studio aide called une peinture qui sera vraiment extraordinaire. Dufy frocked me in a white toga-like affair which had been borrowed from an amateur theatrical group, had me strike the pose he wanted, and then began to slash away with bold strokes ... all the while keeping up a fast line of chatter with various onlookers. I nearly fainted after...