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...painter's discipline has not changed. After dinner, Picasso leaps up, announces: "Now I must work," and paints until 1 or 2 in the morning. And in his spare time he has just finished writing a play in Spanish entitled The Burial of Count Orgaz, based on El Greco's famous canvas. "Naturally," he says, "it is not quite a play, and it's not a question of a burial...
...Greco, like nearly every movie biography of a master painter, uses the artist's art in much the way that a schoolgirl uses paper lace to decorate her valentines. On the heart of this large mushy studio card, dripping with De-Luxe color and local color (from stunning location sites in Spain), is the usual message: Be Mine. Mel Ferrer as the young old master says it to Rosanna Schiaffino as the highborn senorita whose family will not allow her to be his. Rosanna ultimately dies in a convent, post partum and penitent, paying dearly for what began...
...drawings and twelve sculptures by fellow Spanish moderns to hang in the quaint quarters at Cuenca. After retiring from business in 1959, Zóbel looked about Spain for a place to lodge his collection, which included, aside from his works by Goya, Velásquez and El Greco, post-Picasso Spanish painters of promise. An abstractionist named Gustavo Torner, now co-director of the museum, persuaded him to try Cuenca, where a grateful mayor was happy to find someone ready to rent the hanging houses already undergoing exterior repairs...
...nature forces me to search for well-ordered things," said Poussin, and he found his order in Greco-Roman antiquity. Of provincial birth in Normandy, he was not able until the age of 30 to get to Rome, the world's art capital during his lifetime. There he sketched ancient ruins, read the classic Latin poetry of Ovid, dissected cadavers to learn anatomy, copied the works of Raphael...
Settled in Washington and married to a fellow art enthusiast, Marjorie Acker, he was soon buying selectively throughout the ages, from an El Greco to a classic Renoir such as Luncheon of the Boating Party, picked up in 1923 for an adventurous $125,000. Bonnard became a special love (he owned 26). As his collection grew (it totaled some 2,000 paintings when he died), the Phillipses in 1930 were crowded out of their home, but they maintained it as a museum with its Oriental rugs, comfortable chairs and ashtrays, and no cordoned-off areas or guards...