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TIME'S choice to paint the President on his own seventh appearance on TIME'S cover, was Italy's famous portrait painter, Pietro Annigoni, 51, who made headlines in years past with his paintings of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret. A vivacious and expansive fellow who lives in a kind of chaotic simplicity in Florence, surrounded like a Renaissance master with admiring students who call him Maestro, mix his paints, and fill in the backgrounds of his frescoes, Annigoni at first did not understand the need of secrecy, and soon the Italian press and radio...
...Belle Inertie. Unhappily, in the case of Moreau, the quest for ancestry gets a bit out of hand; his is a case in which a painter has been more ignored than unknown, since his work has long been embalmed in the musty, state-run Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris. Not until the Louvre, apparently at the instigation of Culture Minister André Malraux, put on a big Moreau show last summer (TIME, July 21) was the general public suddenly informed that Moreau should be remembered not only as the brilliant teacher of Matisse and Rouault but also...
...painter of abstract art is well advised to price his works at some figure, such as 66 dollars, which increases in value when hung upside down...
...father, a baker, was prosperous enough to want his son to have the most respectable of careers, preferably engineering. But André was already painting, and his best friend was the young ruffian Maurice Vlaminck, whom Papa Derain would not let into the house. Then one day an older painter by the name of Henri Matisse saw some of André's work, spoke so glowingly of his talents and prospects that Derain's father finally relented. Maurice and Andre rented a shack on an island in the Seine, and their careers finally began...
...Elegant Dilettante. Until she was 20, Berlin-born Gabriele Münter thought that music would be her career; she had published a few songs, and she was an accomplished pianist. But she changed her mind, decided to become a painter, and soon headed for Munich, then and now a haven for the German avantgarde. In 1902 she started studying at a school called the Phalanx, an institution already intoxicated by the 20th century...