Word: goya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Davis Lodge, who tried his best to make polite noises as he was led from one sprawling canvas to the next, fled 45 minutes after he arrived. One distinguished Spaniard, steeped in the traditions of El Greco and Velasquez, asked: "If this is art, what was it that Goya painted? You certainly can't compare the two." The abrupt reply from a partisan of the show...
...Goya [Portrait of La Marquesa de Santa Cruz) looks more magnificent than ever in its proper place in the "softly lighted Spanish Gallery," and, of course, we are all very proud to have her. It was wonderful to be able to give her the kind of debut that you made for her [Los Angeles' Goya-April 14]. The article is excellent, and evidently is having an electrifying effect on friends and colleagues. The Marquesa even got a telegram of saludos and welcome from her three blacksmith countrymen in the Frick's Forge...
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...
...best: Goya's The Forge in Manhattan's Frick Collection...