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...Bouguereau nude was always obtained through the bottom of a 16 oz. beer glass. Critics in the chill light of a formal art gallery were not impressed with the "Back to Bouguereau" movement. Last week with a better artist and in a better cause (a loan exhibition at the Widenstein Galleries for New York's Child Welfare Committee), Maud Dale revived the work of one of M. Bouguereau's contemporaries, the late Giovanni Boldini. Giovanni Boldini ("Zanin" to intimates) was a society portraitist as artificial as any who ever stretched a lady's fingers to tickle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of Swish | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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