Word: quiteria
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Subject of the paintings is the marriage of Quiteria from Don Quixote. Forced into narrow, high panels, the kicking, squealing characters of Artist Sert literally stand on each other's heads to fill the space. Celebrants at the wedding feast include leaping acrobats, hoary strong men, bull tamers, jugglers, drunkards, surrounded by great billows of silver and claret-colored drapery. Other than those which Artist Sert has painted into his compositions, there will be no hangings in the Waldorf's Sert Room. Paris critics credited the paintings with "the potency of a Michelangelo . . . daring of a Goya . . . more...
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