Word: miro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After seven months of wandering over Europe, half unfinished, the new Juan Miro mural arrived at the Grad Center dining halls last month. Afficionados, as the gentleman above, were delighted; others, dismayed...
...Miro mural was scheduled to appear last January, but did not. Officials wired Paris to ask the painter what had happened. They received no reply...
Other attempts to find Miro and his mural also failed. It appeared on exhibit in Paris for a short time last spring, then disappeared again. During the summer, Miro wired shortly that it was on its way, and the gigantic work finally showed up in time to greet this year's graduate diners...
...because they "wanted something to hang on the wall." Corporation Lawyer* Colin and his wife decided on modern paintings as "more appropriate in a modern apartment-old masters in the same surroundings would be chichi." Though they specialize in such safe school-of-Paris bets as Rouault, Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Soutine and Modigliani, the Colins admit to having made some poor purchases: "But we love our mistakes-we never sell or exchange them...
Twenty-nine paintings by such artists as Picasso, Klee, Miro, and Marin, selected to illustrate the remarks of the speakers, will be placed on exhibition at the Fogg Museum from Thursday until June 7. The symposium is open to the public, it was also announced...