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Directed by Marseille-born Composer-Playwright Louis Ducreux, the ambitious production had two curtains, four sets, and no fewer than 265 costumes designed by famed Painter Bernard Buffet. In the title role was the Metropolitan Opera's Regina Resnik, who has sung Carmen all over the world. Don José was U.S.-born Richard Martell, a tenor who once sang with the San Francisco Opera and has built a fine European reputation...
...sometimes seems as if the U.S. art world will tear itself apart with all its cliques and cults, but there is one artist whose extraordinary vision keeps him well above the battle. Painter Andrew Wyeth is not influenced by other artists' work; he rarely visits galleries, is wholly unaffected by "trends." He is in a sense one of the most isolated of America's top artists, yet his appeal is universal. Whether realists or abstractionists, artists admire him; he casts a spell over layman and sophisticate alike. His paintings, so static at first glance, are charged with emotion...
...duke scored a coup by buying more than 200 drawings from the collection of Nicolaes Flinck, the son of a Rembrandt pupil. He also beat out Louis XIV in purchasing a volume of drawings that the French Landscape Painter Claude Lorrain had done as a record of his own paintings...
Died. Charles Hopkinson, 93, dean of U.S. portrait artists; in Manchester, Mass. A proper Bostonian known as the "court painter of Harvard" for his precise oils of Presidents Charles W. Eliot (his uncle), Abbott Lawrence Lowell and James B. Conant, Hopkinson dashed off impetuous watercolors for pleasure, but turned a cool New Englander's eye to his investigations of famous men. His first portrait was of the late E. E. Cummings as a baby, and his later works ranged from John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Herbert Hoover and a dour, purse-mouthed Calvin Coolidge, which now hangs...
Died. Ludwig Bemelmans. 64, bubbly, urbane caricaturist whose lighthearted paintings and gently satirical books delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...