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Prime Catch. Goya's Muse is not only one of his best, but for years was also his least-known painting. He painted the young Marquesa about 1804, when she was one of the leading lights of proud Spanish intellectual circles and a member of the group that welcomed the Duke of Wellington as a national hero when he arrived to drive out Napoleon's troops. The victorious Wellington returned to London in 1814, carrying hundreds of gifts showered upon him by the grateful Spanish. Among them was the Muse. For generations it hung almost forgotten in impressive...
...five years Brown kept tabs on the painting, in January of this year got his board of governors to pay a Manhattan dealer $270,000 for it-the biggest sum spent by the museum in years. Says Brown, enthusiastically, "It's the second-best Goya this side of the Atlantic.* It's a major painting, monumental, beautiful and appealing. Goya's handiwork shows in every stroke...
Says Brown, who already has more than $1,000.000 pledged toward a new art museum building: "The best way to describe the interest Los Angeles has in art is to say it's vehement. More fine private collections are being made, more important galleries are being operated, and more art is being shown publicly than in any other city but New York. This is clearly the No. 2 art center in the U.S. today,, and in 20 years or so, Los Angeles may even overtake New York...
...best: Goya's The Forge in Manhattan's Frick Collection...
...women's clothes, the bathing suit has worn best through the ups and downs of high fashion; 1947 brought the Bikini, and no one has quite been able to top that. But last week, as it has come to dresses, coats, suits and negligees, the chemise came to bathing suits...