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Ricci became a much-commissioned, much-traveled painter and a foremost influence on others, but with his death in 1729 his fame ebbed away. In 1933, a major Marco Ricci oil sold for a paltry $500. Now renewed interest in Ricci has led to a retrospective of 228 of his works at the Palazzo Sturm near Venice, which before closing last week drew a remarkable total of 47,600 visitors. And the $500 painting has been resold...
...Harvard Square of students were standing by the Kiosk, waiting for the extras to begin to arrive. A man in painter's overalls was arguing with a policeman about putting the flag over the Coop at half-meet...
SONIA DELAUNAY-Granville, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th St. Gouaches and oils done by the widow of Painter Robert Delaunay. Brilliant suns whirl across the canvases, lock in geometrical embraces of color. Through...
...baggage, after one tall tale too many), and were a biographer's despair. "Who could be so discourteous," asks Biographer Wolfe, "who so foolish and dully matter-of-fact, as to disbelieve such attractive, exciting, baroquely designed, richly detailed, marvelously verisimilar yet preposterous stories, told while the painter smiled and snorted, his bulging eyes fastened directly upon...
Canada's Communists can be sure that other Mounties are sprinkled through their secret cells. As far back as 1921, Mountie John Leopold went underground to become Jack Esselwein, Socialist house painter and first secretary of the Communist Party in Regina, Sask. In the old days an aspiring Mountie had to be 6 ft. tall, or better. But that was like wearing a "Kick Me" sign in the shadowy world of plain-clothes police work. Today's Mounties only have to measure an "average" 5 ft. 8 in.-and they are busily infiltrating the Montreal heroin syndicates, ingratiating...