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Married. René Bouché. 56, Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover painter (Jean Kerr, John F. Kennedy, Sophia Loren); and Anne Denise Alicia Lawson-Johnston, 34, a former editor of Vogue; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
Diffidently, and often only when pressed to show the better pictures that he might have in the back room, would Vienna Art Dealer Willy Verkauf let customers see the works of the talented new painter in his stable. The works were mostly collages-cockeyed compositions of doors leading to nowhere, scraps of road maps, photographs of machinery, tiny human beings caught in endless labyrinths. They proved immensely popular. In the past three years, Verkauf has been responsible for selling about 100 pictures by André Verlon; he arranged one-man shows for him in Munich and Düsseldorf, found...
...shows, and among a small group of collectors, he became known as a hot discovery. Dr. Werner Hofmann, director-designate of Vienna's projected Museum of the Twentieth Century, not only snapped up a Verlon for his new collection, but also wrote an enthusiastic article about the new painter in Zurich's English-language Art International. The good doctor found the collages to be "a series of insights into the condition of man. The conception is ironic and bitter. It attests to a suffering, mutilated humanity, and yet there are successful concentrates in which man's dark...
They are the work of Alex Katz, a young man who in the last three years has achieved quite a reputation as a figure painter. These cutouts, which were the stage sets for Koch's play, are a side line for Katz-huge toy soldiers, a kind of instant folk art, that would be fine if everyone concerned did not insist on taking them seriously. "I like to mix what people and experts say can't be mixed," says Katz. "I like to take a vulgar social thing or idea like these cutouts and give them something else...
...make me to leave this house," the solicitor's clerk told Mr. Biswas. "Really for my mother sake, man. That is the onliest reason why I have to move. The old queen can't man age the steps." And so Mr. Biswas, ex-sign painter, ex-bus conductor, ex-journalist, achieved his heart's desire and moved into a dwelling of his very own. It looked "like a huge and squat sentry-box," he paid too much for it, the upper floor sagged, the windows would not shut, one door would not open...