JOHN BARRYMORE SITS FOR A PORTRAIT BY KATHERINE STUBERG – 1941

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  1. George Kaplan
    April 30, 2013

    Striking. The sculptor’s art is such an impressive one. It’s also interesting to think that here we have the rather-ravaged Great Profile being preserved “forever” while the real one would not be long for this world. (I’m in a pretentious mood, it seems!)

    • April 30, 2013

      You’re right. I think John Barrymore would be dead about a year after the photo was taken, pneumonia and a liver ruined by alcohol. Portrait busts are so monumental, it’s odd to see it in contrast with the somewhat wolfish/mischievous glance he’s sending Katherine’s way.

      • George Kaplan
        April 30, 2013

        “wolfish/mischievous glance” Ha! Exactly! Such a glance has never crossed George’s face though 😉

  2. April 30, 2013

    Dear V
    I’ve always thought it interesting that women seemed to have scored more and greater success in sculpture than perhaps painting. In Britian we had Dames Elizabeth Frink and Barbara Hepworth, two of the giants of our 20th century, while the world had the amazing Louise Bourgeois possibly the most famous female artist ever. Madame Bougeois was of course many things, but it always seemed to me that she had a sculptor’s sensibility.
    Yours ever
    The Perfumed Dandy

  3. April 30, 2013

    Dame Elizabeth – face and sculpture strong, kind of reminiscent of those monumental heads of the Easter Islands. Hepworth – love those abstract forms… Now an admission, who is Madame Bougeois???
    Merci beaucoup,
    V

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