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Word: picadors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection's Picassos include oils, charcoal drawings and an inkwash. "Picador with Figures" which is monumental and timeless. Although the Picassos are well worth seeing, it is in the work of his contemporary, the late Georges Braque (1882-1963) that the growth of a master can be more fully traced...

Author: By Bart D. Schwartz, | Title: The Block Collection | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...sick in the bed." The great flamenco dancer Escudero suddenly burst in and demanded that he make something for a party that would take place that night. De Creeft gazed up at the cold stovepipes that crossed his studio ceiling and, though still muy mal, put together his famous Picador. Almost overnight he was hailed as the founder of a new school of stovepipe art, and his reputation was to follow him across the Atlantic when he arrived in the U.S. in 1929. He made three more such things "which was scraps," and then abandoned the movement to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: True to Life | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...countess half-believes in contact with a psychic realm that goes far beyond trickery or even telepathy. At a table-rapping seance, the countess herself is taken aback when her dead son's voice materializes. Finally, her crystal ball reveals tragedy in a bull ring, and a picador is killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mexico & Metaphysics | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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