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Date: 10 March 2019

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Post No. 6177

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PAINTER CAN’T PAIN FOR THREE MONTHS!

Alfred Stieglitz, the husband of Georgia O Keeffe , has also always been the exclusive handler of her paintings. In most cases he has been reluctant to part with them at all. Occasionally he would name, in a sort of irritation, a sum which he regarded safely beyond the pale. He once demanded 25000 dollars for a series of five flower paintings. To his astonishment, the price was accepted without question. Miss O Keeffe was so dumbfounded that for three months she was unable to paint.

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80 POSES FOR PICASSO FOR NOTHING!

In 1906, Gertrude Stein, posed 80 times for Picasso’s portrait of her, after which he wiped the face off , saying he couldn’t see her any more, and then finished the likeness in Spain, where he could not see her at all. He also gave her this portrait because, as he later said, at that time in his career, the difference between a gift and a sale was ,after all , negligible.

He also said, when friends complained that the portrait didn’t look like her, that someday she would look like the portrait.

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KEEP IN TOUCH WITH HUMANITY

A philosopher called upon a young art student who had just set to work in his first studio after a brilliant course in the art schools of Europe. They talked of the problems relating to beauty, ideals and ambitions. Upon his departure the philosopher paused upon the threshold of the studio and said to the young painter,
“Your art will cease to be great art unless you keep in touch with humanity.”

Xxx SUBHAM xxxx