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Guys's estimate of his work was overmodest. Since his death in a charity clinic in 1892, museums and private collectors have begun to collect his drawings. Last week Paris critics had compared him with Rembrandt and Goya, and labeled him "one of the most sumptuous draftsmen of the French school...
...Bellows' best, Emma in a Purple Dress ranks high among U.S. portraits. Scanning his wife's trim ankles, high-piled dark hair and tapering fingers with an appreciative, penetrating eye, Bellows managed to give her face and figure the elegance and spirit of a Goya duchess, her simple low-waisted silk dress an air of perennial chic. It was the last portrait he ever did of his wife. In 1925, two years after he completed it, he died at 42, at the peak of his talent...
...have hotfooted it across the border to France almost as soon as they were old enough to carry their own easels. The artists who stayed behind seemingly found it difficult to forget Spain's great artistic past, and followed, without distinction, the traditions of El Greco, Velasquez and Goya...
...Palencia's boldly colored, unsophisticated commentaries on Spanish country life were neither hidebound nor self-consciously revolutionary. This spring when Palencia, now 50, had a one-man show at Madrid's Museum of Modern Art, critics boasted: "Spain has a great new painter . . . the richest temperament since Goya...
...Modern Painter Marie Laurencin saw the pictures, she was so enthusiastic that she begged the editor of Figaro Littéraire to let her announce her discovery. Her verdict: "[They have] the faith of the great primitives shining in each of their faces, with a terror that recalls only Goya." Almost overnight, Mère Geneviève's name was made, and the convent began to sell more sets of her etchings at around $60 a set. Just as important, the nuns began to accept her work as something more than merely strange and disturbing...