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...ballet skirt and a misty setting, inspired by Degas and churned out commercially by one Fried Pal, among others; 3) The Paris Street, in cool colors with sharp edges, originated by Utrillo, but perpetuated by a more sober and less talented host of hacks; 4) the dashing watercolor of a horse race at Longchamp or a Riviera regatta, which Raoul Dufy invented and his younger brother Jean imitates in quantity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THANKS TO REPRODUCTION | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

That was in 1936. Namatjira learned so fast that within a few months he had sold his first watercolor. Price: five shill ings. By 1945 his pictures were so much in demand that 43 watercolors in a Sydney show were sold in 20 minutes, for nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bushman to Brushman | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...group of photographs. They showed four panels by Bartolommeo Montagna, a minor master of the late 15th century Venetian school. Two of the panels, representing the Angel and the Virgin of the Annunciation, eventually passed into the collection of New College, Oxford. The other two were known only from watercolor copies; the originals had vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bartolommeo Montagna | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Kalighat painting." Kalighat pictures covered an extraordinary range of subject matter, from divinities to profanities. They were made to sell as souvenirs to pilgrims at the temple steps. The art first came into being when British colonists brought cheap paper and the technique of painting with transparent watercolor to Calcutta. It died when machine-printed cards and chromos undercut sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Penny Watercolors | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Altogether, there were some 100 drawings and watercolors by the versatile prince, showing a firm hand and a fine sense of the dramatic and the satirical. The French press swelled with artistic and patriotic pride. "A great but misunderstood watercolor artist and promoter of our modern navy," glowed one paper. Seven hundred people a day flocked into the Musée de la Marine to see the work of De Joinville. who once remarked: "Everybody writes his memoirs. I have drawn mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Versatile Prince | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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