Self-Portrait, 1894
oil on canvas
Unframed: 25 x 20 in.
Framed: 30 x 25 1/4 x 1 1/8 in.
National Academy Museum, New York
Meule
signed and dated ‘Claude Monet 91’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 5/8 x 36 ¼ in. (72.7 x 92.1 cm.)
Painted in 1891
“Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess… It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work — that means hard — there’s no time for play.”
—Ann Miller
Self-Portrait
Watercolor on ivory
Unframed: 3 1/4 x 2 5/8 in.
Framed: 12 x 11 1/4 in.
National Academy Museum, New York
Gift of Samuel P. Avery, John G. Brown, Thomas B. Clarke, Lockwood de Forest, Daniel Huntington, James C. Nicoll, and Harry W. Watrous, 1900
New York City, 1964
“Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.”
—Marlene Dietrich
Orson Welles arrives at the premiere of Citizen Kane, 1941
Alcazar, Seville,
Spain, 2007
Moshe Zabari, Israeli, b. 1935
New York, New York, United States, 1984
Silver: fabricated, spun, hammered, embossed, welded, and forged; formed wire; lucite tiers
Overall: 14 1/2 × 18 1/4 in. (36.8 × 46.4 cm)
I like the green Morgan. A friend and fellow surgery resident had one when we were in training in the late 60s.
Marlene Dietrich…reminds me:
In the 1950s, Erich Maria Remarque came to a friend with a dilemma: two women were pursuing him.
“So I said, ‘Oh, really, Erich, that sounds terrible, who are they?’ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘one of them is Paulette Goddard and the other is Marlene Dietrich.’ So I said, ‘Well, Erich, my God, you’re in real trouble here.’ But he was deadly serious. ‘Which one do you think I should go for, Douglas? ‘That is a terrible dilemma, Erich, I mean, my God, this is something we have to think about very carefully.’ ‘You know,’ he said, ‘Marlene is very attractive, but Paulette is really good at the stock market. I think I should go for Paulette.’ So I said to him, ‘Well, Erich, the stock market is very important, no doubt about that.’
As a Remarque fan, I certainly hope he was kidding about this decision process. (Which would tend to belie the title of the autobiography I am quoting from: Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic.)]
I think I would have gone for Paulette. Not that I wouldn’t love to have known Marlene but wasn’t she pretty ambiguous sexually? I read somewhere that she was bisexual.
Funny how things work in Hollywood. Forever Amber is a competent bore that hardly anyone remembers, whereas Gun Crazy has been recognized as a classic.
Which goes back to what Wm Goldman said on the movie business: “Nobody knows nothinkg”. Wish I had kept that book.
I too love that beauty parlor picture, although probably not for the reasons Feinstein intended. I barely see him…but those 2 women…I take my elderly mother to the beauty shop monthly and didn’t realize how hard those beauticians work. 8 hours on your feet constantly. With her cigarette, she shows that.
The Morgan: Darn it Robert! Get one! So what if Karen laughs at you. Your perception of others thinking you are in a mid-life crisis for getting one is wrong. When your days are coming to an end, will you be glad you never got one?
That is reserved for middle-aged men driving red Corvettes, Ferraris, Porsches, et al.
If you drive a Morgan those who know, know that you know sports cars and have it for the driving enjoyment.
“I take my elderly mother to the beauty shop monthly ”
My mother lived to 103 and never washed her hair. She went to the beauty parlor every week or two and, late in her life, had a defrocked Chicago priest who lived in her building and drove a taxi take her.
Awesome post this week, Robert. So many great photos and paintings.
I’m not sure about that “watch” (and I hesitate to call that horological masterpiece a watch).
My favorites images this week are:
1) the green Morgan,
2) Peggy Cummins
3) the Beauty Parlor photo (the look on her face is priceless)
Marlene had a very high opinion of herself! 🙂 and Rick’s photo looks like a painting.
I imagine this post was scheduled, but please update us on your progress as soon as you or Karen are able. Have a wonderful weekend.