Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gypsy Rose Lee walked off with a small Degas under her arm, too excited to wait for the rest of the auction. At the book sale particularly, connoisseurs held their seats as the prices skyrocketed. The Manet ellustrées published in 1929, containing Manet watercolor reproductions in color, went for $360-though its Paris price ten years ago was around $30. The collection was a market sensation from Derain to Dufy, from Rouault to Renoir. It was strongest in works by Crowninshield's old friends, French Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest...
Cataleptic Challenge. Churchill's first tries were with watercolor. One Sunday morning his restless extrovert eye fell on his sister-in-law, Lady Gwendeline, sketching in a garden. He seized on a painting kit belonging to the children of the house and took his first plunge. He changed to oils the next day, as soon as he could get to a supply shop. Like most amateurs, and very like himself, he at once bought a lot of magnificent apparatus, including portable easels for traveling...
...third, make-lead Goofy is whisked from his natural habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American cowboy. The final and most sparkling sequence, the "Aquarela do Brasil" (watercolor of Brazil) is a beautiful spectacle of rhythmic color and samba music in which Donald Duck is introduced to Rio by Joe (Jose) Carioca, a personable young parrot of exuberant tastes...
...late George Gershwin was represented by his self-portrait posed before his easel in top hat, white tie and tails. Nathan Milstein, top-rank violinist, revealed himself as a minor master in watercolor. Rumbologist Xavier Cugat sketched himself standing before invisible bongo drums...
...Woolf. Her brother-in-law was Art Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night And Day, were a blotted watercolor of social comedy in Jane Austen's manner and her own brand of lyrical metaphysics. In uneasy, brilliant experiments, in critical essays putting such writers as Joyce and Arnold Bennett in their proper places, Virginia Woolf began to find...