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Bard at His Bloodiest In Julie Taymor's Titus.(Arts&Entertainment)
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Byline: Andrew Sarris
Julie Taymor's Titus, based on the play Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, would strike the more learned admirers of the Bard as a curious, almost incomprehensible choice from his oeuvre for a movie in any other times but our own. Consider the most grotesquely gruesome entrance in all dramatic literature, "Enter the Emperor's sons, Demetrius and Chiron, with Lavinia, her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out, and ravished." Poor Lavinia! But fear not. Shakespeare will serve up the infamous rapists and mutilators, Demetrius and Chiron, ...
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McIlroy tracks down Hellau.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence
; ...where he has now staged a major coup by sourcing the Paul-Cesar Helleu painting "La Gare Saint Lazare" for an exhibition...painting is not for sale. McIlroy had helped popularise Helleu's works with Australian collectors while at Christie...
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Society portraits. (Newport, Rhode Island)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...even the English silver table settings of Paul Storr (see p. 587, Pl. VIII) and Paul de Lamerie (1588-1751) - bearing someone...V), Carolus-Duran (1837-1917), Paul Cesar Helleu (see Pls. IX, X), Philip Alexius de Laszlo...
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'American Women': A Hidden Pleasure
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (1877-1964), who is represented by an elegant drypoint portrait by Paul Cesar Helleu. Apart from being rich, she seems to have earned her place in the American pantheon by producing a male heir for...
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New York Auctions Suggest End of Louis XV-XVI Magic
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...for John Singer Sargent's ''Staircase in Capri'' or the similarly inflated $431,500 that it took to get Paul-Cesar Helleu's portrait of his wife seen seated at her secretaire. Not even the Impressionist brushwork used by the French...
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WORKS OF ART
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...porcelain from all the major factories.24 Plaque - by Paul-Cesar Helleu.This beautiful painting of a woman is the first Impressionist...Gallery.28 The Breton Shepherdess - an 1886 picture by Paul Gauguin which marks his departure from Impressionism...
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Hammer poised on life of the courtesan queen
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...and drawings by George Seurat, John Singer Sargent, Paul-Cesar Helleu and Andre Derain. Sargent's Staircase in Capri...photographs, and in a charcoal drawing, Playing Cards, by Paul Maze (up to pounds 2,800). There is also a cheque...
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The Pamela mystique: Harriman's stuff attracts the curious at Sotheby's.
Magazine article from: Newsweek
; ...of Art. The objects recalled the stages of Harriman's life--the paintings and drawings by the French artist Paul-Cesar Helleu (sold for prices ranging from $18,400 to $451,500) that she bought for a pittance when she was Rothschild...
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Culture: Creature discomforts; Terry Grimley reviews Richard Billingham's new video installation and an exhibition of Impressionism at Compton Verney.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...Impressionist artists. I say this because, for example, it seems disproportionately fixated in the relatively obscure Paul-Cesar Helleu whose credentials as an Impressionist seem questionable to say the least. But it's a pleasant enough selection...
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