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Limited Ecstasy. What was clear on that opening night was that the show appealed to a minority, primarily younger artists and critics. Their welcome was ecstatic. "This exhibition was necessary," exclaimed Madrid Artist Manolo Millares, 32. "We've been wanting it for years." The 200-odd aficionados who milled around the huge canvases at the opening rapidly began sorting out impressions. Jackson Pollock was the most important, they decided. Mark Rothko's shimmering panels of color were their favorites, followed by the works of Clyfford Still (TIME, Nov. 25), Franz Kline, Philip Guston. Sam Francis. The qualities most...
...scampish Bohemian who dressed like a gypsy, sported a wide-brimmed hat and passed himself off as a guitarrista, Manolo boasted that he "knew all the thieves of my time." No one doubted his word. The illegitimate son of a proud Spanish officer, he was urged to make the army his career; instead, he deserted when he was drafted, hid out in Barcelona with gypsies, petty thieves and the hungry artists who met at the IV Gats café. On the side he studied painting and sculpture...
Sculpture in a Dairy. A year after his friend Picasso went to Paris, Manolo used his last peseta for train fare, arrived at Paris' Gare d'Austerlitz knowing one word in French: "Montmartre." Once there, Manolo rapidly established himself with his peasant shrewdness and high-spirited escapades as the Sancho Panza of Montmartre, and was soon fending for himself. Reports Picasso's mistress of that day, Fernande Olivier: "Happily, he fell in love with the daughter of a dairyman who hired him each day to sculpture animals and flowers in mounds of butter...
When the butter ran out, Manolo readjusted to poverty. One story has it that he actually pinched a painting from the Louvre, and Picasso returned it to the police. Another time, invited to live with Painter Paco Durio, Manolo took advantage of his friend's absence to sell off Durio's Gauguin collection. "When circumstances became more favorable," explained Manolo in later years, "I stopped doing inelegant things forever. I never thought to steal after...
...Fright at the Station. What made the difference was a contract from famed cubist Art Dealer Henry Kahnweiler, who still today says of Sculptor Manolo: "I think he was greater than Maillol." Manolo discovered the charms of the small town of Céret near the Spanish border, and was soon surrounded by vacationing Montmartre friends, including Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris. But though living in the midst of early cubist experiments-French critics called Céret "the Barbizon of cubism"-Manolo would have none of it, once snapped at Picasso, then at work on his cubist Accordionist...