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...descendant of the de Albas, I disagree with the so-called experts who would like to convince themselves that there was an adulterous relationship between the painter Goya and Dona Cayetana de Silva, one of the Duchesses of Alba [July...
...witty host to society and royalty. Socialites, politicians, ambassadors and industrialists come to admire his golden-eyed. part-Cherokee wife Rosita (the eighth best-dressed woman in the U.S.), his superb table and cellars, and his tastefully decorated walls (three dozen major works by Renoir, Matisse, Degas, Modigliani, Picasso, Goya...
...singled out for comment: Jack Levine's controversial Welcome Home, which shows a bloated, translucent, two-star general banqueting with his friends. "It looks," said General Eisenhower, "like a lampoon more than art, as far as I am concerned." Nobody interrupted to invoke the shades of Hogarth, Goya or Daumier, so Ike went on to say that in the future, "I think I might have something to say if we have another exhibition anywhere." Possibly, "there ought to be one or two people" on the Government's selection boards "that, like most of us here...
Although the Alba family of Spain denies it to this day, most of the experts are convinced that Francisco Goya had a love affair with the duchess of his time. After the duke died in 1796 and the beautiful duchess retired from society, at 34, to mourn alone on the Alba estate, the painter apparently joined her. His great portrait of 1797, now hanging at the Hispanic Society Museum in Manhattan, is the clue. A vital and imperious creature at the peak of womanhood, she stands dressed in mourning, dramatically pointing to the sand by her toes. On her pointing...
Last week museum officials announced that cleaning had uncovered another hint that peasant painter and noble model were indeed lovers. There was a second word, preceding Goya, that had been covered over with paint long ago-presumably by the artist himself. That word is "Solo," Spanish for only...