

Fresco transferred to wood
150 x 120 cm
Gallery: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy



“Still Life with Window and Picket Fence”
2015
Oil on canvas 36 x 24 inches

Ink on paper, 510 x 710mm






“The Larks Wing Encircled with Golden Blue Rejoins the Heart of the Poppy Sleeping on a Diamond.”
1967
oil on canvas
195 x 130 cm

—Myrna Loy






“Eight Red Rectangles”
1915
31.5 × 24.4 in
Oil on canvas
Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam Netherlands)


Photo by: Steve Cohn
(310) 277-2054
www.stevecohnphotography.com
© 2016
You’re a cruel man, Robert. You know some of your readers are going to wonder if it can really be as bad as stabbing yourself in the eye with a rusty fork, and are going to go see that film.
Me, I’m going to trust you on this one.
The Bacall quote is great.
I love the Bruce Cohen painting.
The scholar with his quill — interesting.
The einiklach are adorable.
I would love to see the navy blue and pink outfit Gene Tierney describes. It sounds remarkable, to say the least.
I had no idea the “deep” Marion in Funny Face (“Minute Men from Mars!”) was Dovima.
You always have fascinating information and wonderful pictures to share with us. I look forward to it every Friday. Thank you!
I’m with Lauren Bacall. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” is excellent. Showed it to my son when he was old enough and he loved it. Somewhat later I had the opportunity to show him “Sunrise” and he now tells anyone who will listen that Murnau is the greatest silent-era director.
Dovima’s eyebrows in the Horst P Horst photo remind me of Boldini’s portrait of Edith Wharton Drexel (see http://www.jssgallery.org/other_artists/Boldini_Giovanni/LadyDecies.htm). Lady Decies was the opera attendee in the middle of Weegee’s famous photo, “The Critic” from 1943. (Read more about that photo at http://thedowneastdilettante.blogspot.com/2010/12/night-at-opera-or-portraits-of-some.html and at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-night-at-the-opera-111819803/?all)
Thank you, Robert. It’s been a very long week and this always lifts me up!
Myrna Loy, Joan Collins, Lauren Becall… *sigh* I feel like I’m reliving my youth 😉
I was not familiar with Dovima, but it looks like an interesting story.
Have a wonderful Sabbath.
Back to the grindstone!
Love the story of Lauren Bacall.
““Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”
—Myrna Loy
A profound statement. As I have gotten older I have come to realize that “things” – beyond the basics, aren’t all that important. The “getting” always seems to be a letdown after the “wanting”.
And eventually you end up being owned by the things you own.
Peggy Lee’s song “Is that all there is” comes to mind.
Bill,
I had a Granddad who always said “In life it’s the “doing’ that is more important than what you’ve “done'”.
I love Astaire and his necktie belts. I’m reading “The Astaires” by Kathleen Riley now. RJ Wagner has some nice memories of Astaire in his biography. I wonder how many movie stars play golf now? I know a couple. Andy Garcia is club champion of Lakeside.