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Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Henri Focillon professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard University L.H.D...
...Henri M. Peyre. Sterling professor of French at Yale Litt.D...
Picasso's attachment to the Communist Party has been subject to fits and starts. He let the party make his Peace Dove (actually a lithograph of a white fantail pigeon Henri Matisse had given him as a present) a propaganda symbol the world over, and Communist Boss Maurice Thorez is a frequent and conspicuous guest at Picasso's villa at Cannes. But when someone asked Picasso what he would do if France became a satellite and he was ordered to paint the party line, Picasso exploded: "If they stopped my painting, I would draw on paper. If they...
...month as part of the museum's Picasso exhibit. In it Picasso undertakes to paint a new canvas from scratch before the camera's eyes. Naked to the waist, white hair bristling on his chest, Picasso proclaims with calculated drama: "One must risk everything." Ad-libs Director Henri-Georges Clouzot solemnly: 'That's going to be dangerous." Says Picasso: "Out, that is what I seek." While the camera watches, Picasso designs a beach scene, takes the theme through a series of dexterous variations. Suddenly he rumbles, "It is going badly," pauses, then adds, "It is going...
...statesmen signed-first Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who presided over the drafting of the treaties, then Christian Pineau of France, Konrad Adenauer of Germany, Antonio Segni of Italy, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg and Joseph Luns of The Netherlands. Hardheaded politicians all, the signers were only too aware that the treaties might yet fail to win ratification in one or another of their parliaments (particularly the French), but even that realization could not dim the drama and promise of the moment. "If we succeed," said Belgium's Spaak, "today will be one of the most important dates...