Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patrick Dacre Trevor-Roper,* a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, was well aware that ever since 19th century critics dubbed El Greco an "astigmatic lunatic" the sight defect thesis had often been offered. But Trevor-Roper's research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected...
Colette's equipment as a singer includes a resonant, dark-hued voice, meticulous diction, and a direct, snub-nosed charm that audiences find a welcome relief from the involuted agonizings of the Juliette Greco school. Several weeks ago she took a leave from the role that made her famous, moved to Paris' Olympia music hall. With such songs as Zon, zon, zon, L'Orphéon, and Ou va-t-on se nicher?, she brought down the house and moved the sprightly critical review Arts to lyrical flights: "She has lovely broad shoulders and fine big arms...
...19th century French impressionists was well under way, the paintings in the Niarchos show will include no less than four each by Cézanne, Gauguin and Degas, six Rouaults, nine Renoirs, seven Van Goghs, plus outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya, Delacroix, Corot and El Greco (see color pages). The show represents the utmost in mid-20th century moneyed taste...
...Manhattan in 1949. His first major purchase was Renoir's The Two Sisters, for which he paid $53,200 at Paris' famed Cognacq collection sales in 1952 which touched off a boom in Impressionist paintings. He bought his collection's ' most important single work, El Greco's Pieta for $400,000 to celebrate New Year...
Gallery Afloat. With half a dozen residences round the world to furnish, Niarchos has no shortage of wall space. El Greco's Pietà is too big (47¼-in. by 57 in.) to follow him around the world, remains in a room specially decorated for it in Manhattan. His favorite repository is the yacht Creole, which for nearly six months of the year is the Niarchos' home afloat. In the below-decks salon he hangs some of his best, has a special place of honor where he rotates his favorite of the moment-currently Gauguin...