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...17th century Spanish master to enter a U.S. collection), Salvator Rosa's wild-haired portrait of his mistress, La Ricciardi (purchased for a mere $4,500), Francisco Zurbarán's dramatic St. Serapion, and the museum's latest acquisition, the powerful, full-bearded Philosopher by Spaniard Jusepe de Ribera, bought...
...folk of Tolstoy than the rapacious villagers of Balzac. Yet even Amelie loses innocence as the book progresses: she learns how to connive with petty officialdom so that she can visit Pierre in the forward areas; she discovers her own frailty in turning away the love of a young Spaniard; she shows ruthlessness in extricating her father from a threatened marriage to his cook...
...film, commissioned by Manhattan's Mannes College of Music and made by Art-Film Producer Robert Snyder (The Titan), attempts to summarize in 28 minutes a day in the life of the 80-year-old Spaniard who is regarded by many musicians as the greatest cellist of all time. The camera briefly inspects the little town of Prades in the French Pyrenees, where Casals, until his recent move to Puerto Rico, made his home, calls at the gatehouse he lived in, watches the master give a lesson ("Don't think too much, just feel it"), and then settles...
...around his easel, lit by a powerful electric lamp with triple reflectors, where he paints every day from 4 p.m. until after midnight with an old boxboard for a palette, sometimes knocking off two or three versions of a subject in a single session. Explains Picasso : "I am a Spaniard. Just as a torero takes his bull through all sorts of passes, I like to take my pictures through all kinds of variations...
...Spaniard. In this close, inner world of high fashion, Dior is sometimes deprecated as "the General Motors of Fashion." For the few women who can wear his severely elegant suits and dresses, the designer's designer is a handsome Spaniard named Cristobal Balenciaga. His admirers speak of him as of a dark, mysterious priest in an inner shrine. Said one elegant Parisienne: "Dior is a great publicist, a kind of Barnum of fashion. He has superb workrooms, everything is beautifully and interestingly done. But the only real designer is Balenciaga." Son of a Spanish boat captain, 61-year...