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...notable refugees. The last time he had seen them was outside the Prado Museum in Madrid two years ago and he was glad to see they had survived the long flight, first to Valencia, then to Barcelona, and now to France. They were paintings, masterpieces by Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Murillo. taken from the National Museum and the homes of wealthy Madrilenos. Their value was incalculable...
...wife. The "classic" pictures of these years (1918-25) were really of several kinds: monumental, massive giantesses which to some critics symbolize the all-maternal space of the universe; softly bulky, grand but graceful human figures that recall such Italian masters as Paolo Veronese; out-and-out Greco-Romanesque figure compositions in various stages of archaism, action and distortion. His production was enormous. At Gisors, about 35 miles from P'aris, he bought a chateau...
...Other masters, like Bosch and El Greco and Chardin, share an enthusiastic contemporary reception," wrote Pundit Alfred M. Frankfurter for the catalogue, "but none of them comes so close to the dernière heure of modern taste. . . ." Pleased visitors were inclined to agree that the dernière heure would be a happier one if such sparkling craft and wit as Piero's were more commonly wedded to unfettered fantasy...
...Chiang Kai-shek broke with his Communist allies in 1927, and the Chinese Revolution ended in a swirl of executions, betrayals, assassinations, Malraux left China for good, accompanied an archeological expedition through Persia and Afghanistan on his way back to France. The expedition picked up some important specimens of Greco-Buddhist art, gave Malraux his most tangible accomplishment in archeology. He had already begun to write, publishing The Conquerors at 27 and taking a job as editor of the de luxe editions of a French publishing house...
Though he follows international affairs with a lively interest, Composer Strauss is fundamentally a man of old-world tastes. A connoisseur of painting, he prefers, and owns, pictures by El Greco, Rubens, Tintoretto. His favorite reading is history and biography, and he will spend many hours at a stretch poring over formidable, many-volumed records of the past...