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Spain has bred more than its share of eminent modern artists, among them Picasso, Joán Miró, Juan Gris and Salvador Dali. But most of them 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...
Students will have their last chance this week to see three paintings by Picasso and Juan Gris which are currently hanging with the French exhibition at the Museum. The paintings, left by John L. Sweeny with the Museum over the summer, will be returned to him in less than a week. They are entitled "Still Life With a Fish," and "Abstraction," by Picasso and "Le Pierot," by Juan Gris...
...rain-soaked beach at Cap Gris Nez one night last week, 24 grease-plastered men & women waded into the English Channel and struck out for England. By next night, when the last competitor was pulled exhausted from the water, a world's record had been broken, seven men and two women had succeeded in swimming all the way to Dover beach...
...year older, twelve pounds heavier (168), and a year wiser about the Channel than when she tried and failed last summer (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949). A little before 3 one morning last week, Shirley May, well-coated with sheep grease, waded into the water at Cap Gris Nez and struck out for Dover, 19 miles away...
Critics would be hard put to match the justice of that, or of Gris's conclusion: "No matter, after all, one must paint as one is. My spirit is too exact to dirty a blue or twist a straight line...