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...whose quota of wit, urbanity and charm shows itself only at small, usually intimate gatherings. "He is just a retiring man who suffers in society," says his only son, Jacques, 27, who is a businessman in Paris. Attractive to women, a man of taste (his Paris apartment houses a Goya, a Reynolds, a portrait of Madame's distinguished Napoleonic ancestor Murat), and a fancier of cats (because of their independence and aloofness), he was once described by a friend: "There is an 18th century fragrance about him. He is a portrait on a cameo from the time of Louis...
After 50 years of research, art experts know a little more about Francisco Zurbaran and his work. He was born in 1598 in Estremadura, probably of Basque stock like Goya, and went through life a solitary figure burning with religious zeal. Working alone, he matured swiftly, specialized in stone-cold, almost harsh pictures of monks, saints and bishops, soon held commissions from the church...
Buffalo's coup (see above) was matched by an important art buy in another U.S. city. For 15 years, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has been hunting for a first-class Goya. Last week the master's Self Portrait with Doctor Arrieta was hanging in the museum's place of honor (Minneapolis' prized Rembrandt, Lucretia, had been moved aside to make room for it). Goya painted the Self Portrait in 1820 at the peak of his genius, as a tribute to a man he firmly believed saved his life. In 1819 Goya was 73 years...
...muted greens, reds and violets, Goya shows himself in bed, head back, limp hands feebly clutching the bed sheets. His eyes are puffy, his thin, greying hair mussed and damp with fever. Behind him sits the calm doctor, supporting his patient with a strong left arm, gently urging him to drink a tumbler of medicine. There are three figures in Goya's darkened background: a priest, a woman (possibly Goya's cousin and housekeeper, Leocadia Weiss), and a mysterious, gaping head which may be Goya's symbol for death...
...Painter Goya-who died eight years after he finished the picture-presented Self Portrait to his physician as a gift; later it traveled around private collections in Madrid and Paris until 1952, when a Manhattan art gallery brought it to the U.S. What the Minneapolis Institute paid for it no one would say, but art critics consider it among Goya's best works...