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...After Goya...
...scratch designs for postage stamps on metal dies. For every hundred philatelists who know the value of a one-cent postoffice Mauritius ($20,000) scarcely one knows the name of its engraver, J. Barnard. No such anonymity is the fate of Stamp Engraver Sanchez Toda, designer of the Spanish Goya memorial stamps which reached U. S. post offices last week. Cables carried his name round the world, foreign reformers held high their hands in horror...
Three of the 32 stamps in the Goya issue (11½, 46¢, $1.15) are reproductions of that acid genius Francisco Goya's best known picture La Maja Desnuda ("The Nude Maia"), a portrait of the bold, bare, buxom Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba. The picture caused trouble when Goya painted it.* Trouble continued last week...
...opened on March 11 containing the famed Havemeyer collection (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929) which will greatly swell the museum's resources with fine specimens of Courbet, Corot, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Degas, El Greco, Millet, Puvis de Chavannes, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Veronese, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, De Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Goya. All in all. those who can content themselves with great artistry before Cezanne will find the Metropolitan a fascinating repository of paintings, not as great as the major European museums, but undeniably important.* Those who completely subscribe to Critic Cortissoz's beliefs will find little if any ground...
Jose Clemente Orozco started as a caricaturist. Early he gained a reputation for diabolical satire and was called the 'Mexican Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he worked as a newspaper artist, followed a regiment in the Carranza-Villa revolution. As a syndicate worker, he covered patio walls, stairways and crypts with enormous frescoes of a beardless Christ bearing a great cross, Saint Francis of Assisi bowing to kiss a leper, caricatures of bourgeoise ladies and their...