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Among the searing etchings of the Caprichos of Goya is one called "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters". Korean businessmen and Harvard mandarins have outlines more suave than the apparitions Goya etched; yet few apter titles could describe the $1 million grant of the Korean Traders Association to Harvard for Korean studies...
Menten grew progressively richer by speculating in stocks and art objects, filling his 20-room mansion with more art works (his collection includes paintings by Nicolaes Maes, Francisco Goya and Jan Sluyters), and building up millions of dollars in real estate holdings. His undoing began last spring with publicity that the firm of Sotheby-Mak Van Waay would auction part of Menten's art collection in Amsterdam. The same Israeli journalist, Haviv Kanaan, who had been accumulating evidence against Menten for decades, alerted the Dutch press and, once again, the government. The press, led by Hans Knoop, editor...
...melee, pausing to observe the ironic inscription from Auschwitz which overlooks the courtyard: Arbeiten macht frei. Through this domain of death stalks its mistress, an obese female commandant whose impassive visage makes her the least human element of the picture. The tableau brings to mind Dante's Inferno as Goya or Bosch might have rendered it, but without any air of conscious imitation...
Thaw, 47, is probably the most successful private art dealer of his generation. His special interest as a collector, however, is master drawings, which he began to buy in the early '50s. The whole collection-including numerous works by Era Bartolomeo, Rembrandt, the Tiepolos, Rubens, Claude, Watteau, Goya, Degas and Cezanne-is to be given to the Morgan Library, and this is its first public viewing. Through 1976 it will be seen, after the Morgan showing, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Canada...
...connections are of imagery as well as of hand writing. An essential, indeed an obsessive, side of Goya is disclosed in the drawings on show by that master: blind beggars, stumpy as turnips, caterwauling for alms in the street; an old woman mumbling to her cat; a man in a clownish cap behind a railing, staring from the page with a dreadful mixture of rhetoric and solipsism, entitled simply Lecura - madness. To see Delacroix's watercolor sketch of a tiger, lying on some imaginary ridge in Algeria with the ripples of its striped back imitating the profile of mountains...