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...Martin Benito was a Basque peasant boy who had hoped for fame as an artist. When he failed at that, he turned to art-doctoring, two years ago became one of the eight official restorers in Madrid's museum, the Prado. On the side, he haunted junk shops looking for castoff paintings-cleaning, patching and touching them up for resale at a tidy profit. One day in Toledo's rastro (flea market) he came across a rare find: a filthy five-by-ten-inch scrap of an old painting that looked like an authentic bit of 17th Century...
...figure of a 17th Century cavalier gradually emerged, and behind it a flight of marble steps. Fully cleaned, it had all the depth and brilliance of a Velasquez. Jesús could hardly believe his eyes, but when Toledo's museum sent two genuine Velasquez fragments to the Prado for temporary storage, Jesús jubilantly produced his find. The three bits matched perfectly. Apparently they were three parts from the same long-lost Velasquez, which some enterprising art dealer had long ago scissored to sell piecemeal...
...works of Diego Rivera that are reproduced in this issue, it took Mexico City Photographer Juan Guzman about a month to photograph them in color. His principal headache was the controversial mural in the Hotel Del Prado. Although it is his latest and, Rivera maintains, his best, it still reposes behind red, hinged shutters in the main dining room. Getting the shutters open was not difficult, but nothing could be done with the dining room posts that stood in Guzman's way. Eventually, he shot around them and, the mural being an extensive one, he sent...
Rivera's latest mural, which was unveiled last summer in Mexico City's new Del Prado Hotel, made history too (TIME, June 14-21). It contained a portrait of one of Juárez' anticlerical followers displaying a placard with the words Dios no existe-"God does not exist." The slogan was drawn straight from Mexican revolutionary history, but in predominantly Roman Catholic Mexico it still spelled riot. The Archbishop refused to bless the hotel...
Cannon in the Dining Room. Catholic students raided the hotel, scratched out the brief blasphemy and mutilated Rivera's self-portrait as well. The hotel management hastily boarded up the whole thing.* Today, customers in the Del Prado's wine-carpeted dining room nibble their canard faisandé before a decorous red screen, on the other side of which Rivera's painting stands like a hidden cannon...