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...great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these attractions were powerfully present last week in Manhattan when Knoedler Galleries opened what many critics considered the peak of the season's shows-a loan exhibit of Goya paintings. The pictures came from the discreet walls of Andrew William Mellon, Harrison Williams, Oscar B. Cintas (American Car & Foundry), Eugene G. Grace, Edward S. Harkness, J. Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their Don Vincente Osorio, Count of Trastamara as a Child from their huge living...
...Spain upon which Francisco José Goya y Lucientes first opened his feral eyes was carelessly crumbling in vice and cruelty. Its population had dropped in 300 years from 12,000,000 to approximately half. The Inquisition had burned 30,000, imprisoned ten times as many. The court aped the worst of France. Duchesses dressed as servants and snooped through the streets or tore their mantillas fighting for title to a bullfighter. One nobleman explained his kindness to his servants by inquiring: "How can I be sure my real father is not among them?" There were riots every...
...Bayeu, sister of an influential painter, who unobtrusively bore him 20 children (only one of whom reached maturity) and who as unobtrusively died when she was through. Shortly after his marriage, through his brother-in-law he got a commission to draw cartoons for tapestries. Instead of classical subjects, Goya chose contemporary incidents, then an innovation. The tapestries established his fame, his social position. Goya said he had only three masters: "Rembrandt, Velasquez and Nature." Be cause his work only superficially resembles the first two, critics have generally agreed that the last was his best teacher. No mere portrait painter...
...Madrid, most feared of bullfight critics, after seeing Juan Belmonte for the first time. For the 15 years (1912-27) of Belmonte's ring career all Spain proudly echoed Don Modesto's opinion. Biographer Baerlein goes even further, puts Belmonte on a level with Cervantes and Goya. Readers who liked Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon will want to read this rambling Hispanophile book about Spain's No. 1 modern matador...
...pictures. On his advice the Nelson fund directors have bought lavishly and well. Critics picking their way through echoing marble galleries last week spotted at least half a dozen paintings of world importance: Velasquez' St. Peter; Rubens' Portrait of Old Parr; El Greco's Penitent Magdalene; Goya's Don Ignacio Omulryan y Rourera; Titian's Antoine Perrenot de Granvella; Nicolas Poussin's Triumph of Bacchus...