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After a few years the Surrealists scattered. Gala ran off to marry Salvador Dali. Eluard died in 1952. Ernst went on to enjoy international prominence as a perennial myth maker in sculpture, painting and collage. The house itself was sold in 1929 to a butcher and passed through many hands...
Lord of a sumptuous villa, master of a 200-worker foundry, Miguel Berrocal is, at 36, the latest in a long and rather glorious tradition of Spanish grandees in the arts. Like Picasso and Dali before him, he is both a dazzling technician and a self-consciously public personality, immoderately gifted and immodestly inclined to say so. With his French-born wife Michele, he presides over the 40-room Villa Rizzardi outside Verona, a Renaissance palazzo set among stately cypresses and broad formal gardens that he has studded with his own works. There, the couple entertains some...
...about the nature of their calling. The majority of these works are little more than postgraduate examples of those art school exercises in which students are called upon to copy older paintings or even to try to improve on them. A minority illuminate their topic unforgettably. By penciling a Dali-like goatee and mustache onto a reproduction of the Mono Lisa, Marcel Duchamp made it difficult for anyone looking at the lady thereafter to overlook either the pompous reverence with which she is surrounded or Leonardo's decidedly ambivalent attitude toward women. More recently, Miro, Magritte, Johns, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein...
...well fortified with vintage Mumm's champagne before the bubbly pairs of part-time actors began playing the part of traveling companions in the filming of a series of Braniff Airways commercials. First off, there was baseball's Whitey Ford tweaking the twitching mustache of Salvador Dali. Then came another Odd Couple, Mickey Rooney and Rex Reed. "Let's hurry this show up," cracked the much-married Rooney. "I gotta be in court. I'm gettin' another divorce, ya know." The most memorable set of seatmates, though, was Novelist Mickey Spillane ("I only write...
...chortled Sinatra's ex-wife Ava Gardner, "I always knew Frank would wind up in bed with a boy." The gossip columnists were scarcely kinder. The pair's every waking hour seemed to make the wire services. During the affair, when she lopped off her hair, Dali called it "mythical suicide." After the separation, her behavior seemed more of the same. She flew off to India with her flower-child sister Prudence* for a month of transcendental meditation with Maharishi, the groovy guru. "I got there," Mia remembers, "and it was just the same zoo all over again...