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...During the spring and summer, paintings by El Greco and other great works belonging to galleries in Madrid, notably the Prado Museum, were removed under fire to Valencia and in some cases to Paris. While Spanish artists in Spain stubbornly ignored the war if they could, in Paris Spaniard Pablo Picasso found the perfect subject for his new horror-mangled style in a huge mural, The Bombing of Guernica, for the Spanish Government Building of the International Exposition. Meanwhile the choicest exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsf...
...event of the evening was to have been a message from Pablo Picasso by transatlantic telephone, amplified for the Carnegie Hall audience. But Picasso was ill in Switzerland, sent instead a cable proudly assuring them, "as director of the Prado Museum,* that the Democratic Government of the Spanish Republic has taken all the necessary measures to protect the artistic treasures of Spain during this cruel and unjust...
Especially fascinating to Cleveland visitors were the works of two famed European experimentalists, Spaniard Pablo Gargallo and Rumanian Constantin Brancusi. Gargallo, who died in 1934, was a blacksmith whose skill with metals helped him to do some of the most intricate abstractions in modern sculpture. His bronze, Prophet (see cut), was a figure constructed half of metal and half of empty space, as a piece of music is built of sound and silence. Brancusi's work was represented by a torso composed of three softly melting cylinders and a bust, Mile Pogany, showing the subject as geometry in meditation...
...International Building, found rare things in rich profusion: Sculptor Hoffman's plaques of Pavlova and such of her studies of ceremonial dancers as the Mongolian Bowman (see cut); designs and sketches by such famed Europeans as Christian Bérard, Mariette Lydis, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain. Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, Léon Bakst; drawings made by Nijinsky in his Swiss sanatorium; masks from Africa and masks by W. T. Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French and U. S. photographers. The handsomely printed program announced...
...Stein's inability to recapture contentment in the French village of Bilignin after she had become a success; the third tells of the U. S. journey. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas brought old literary-artistic quarrels to a head. Miss Stein began reading the manuscript to Artist Pablo Picasso and his wife: "I was reading he was listening and his eyes were wide open and then suddenly his wife Olga Picasso got up and said she would not listen she would go away she said. What's the matter, we said, I do not know that woman...