Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million) chosen for display from the collection's total of more than 1,000 works. The finest U.S. collection still in private hands-and the first to be shown abroad-the Lehman collection boasts several of the world's great paintings by Rembrandt, Goya, El Greco, Memling and Petrus Christus (see color pages), includes an eye-stunning array of tapestries. Renaissance furniture, jewelry, enamels, bronzes and even diamond-studded snuff boxes. It represents collecting on a grand scale not likely to be repeated...
...doors of the museum and got his master plan rolling to save one of the finest collections of paintings in the world, including 74 Rubenses, 10 Rembrandts, 26 Van Dycks, 15 Dürers, 10 Titians, 12 Tintorettos, 9 Veroneses, choice works by Giotto, Raphael. Botticelli, Goya, El Greco, Velasquez, Poussin. More than 1,000 paintings were packed for storage and loaded on trucks. The best were sent to the salt mines near Salzburg, Austria, where Buchner's careful investigation had found perfect temperature and humidity, and a bombproof mountain on top. Director Buchner's foresight paid...
...with ivory silk. Hanging against them with vibrant life were 800 paintings, the world-famous masterpieces back home again: Dürer's Four Apostles, Altdorfer's cosmic Battle of Alexander, Rubens' dramatic Battle of the Amazons, Rembrandt's eloquent Descent from the Cross, El Greco's ominous Despoiling of Christ, Boucher's luscious Girl Resting...
...well. Her fans are there to look, not listen." Michiko's looks have sold 100,000 copies of her first Victor recording (Banana Boat Song, Venezuela) in a single month, and have touched off a deluge of fan letters, mostly from teenagers. Like France's Juliette Greco-whom she strikingly resembles-she has become the darling of the intelligentsia, who have celebrated her in ponderous prose. Says one literary critic: "Her primitive songs match men's desire to escape the confused mechanism of today's living." Says another: "She is like a woman who rebels against...
...restive talent of the young Picasso, tramping about Paris with a Browning automatic flamboyantly tucked in his belt, was quickly evident as he began to paint gaunt laundresses, half-starved nudes and such El Greco-haunted scenes as Blind Man's Meal. Their signature was the all-pervading blue monotone, a color which Picasso has since explained "was not a question of light or color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that." The clowns and buffoons of the Rose period that followed still astonish by their sure draftsmanship and haunting melancholy...