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...Shah is sensititve to the criticism of his $100 million extravaganza. And well he might be! The indignation felt by the majority of th Iranian citizens is shared by the majority of us working here in the American and European business communities. Particularly by those of us who have delivered technology to the Iranian government on or ahead of schedule, and are still awaiting payment months and years later. To spend $100 million on a celebration when more than that amount is already owing for completed hard works is indeed indicative of that numbing Iranian characteristic: the instinctive preference...
...nonagenarian painter. They have produced no children. Jacqueline has a 22-year-old daughter from her previous marriage, who often visits them. But Picasso's isolation from his own offspring is nearly absolute. His first son, Paul, is now 50 and lives in Paris; his daughter by Marie-Thérèse Walter lives in Spain; and his two children by Françoise Gilot, Claude, 24, and Paloma, 22, were cut out of his life and virtually deprived of support from their millionaire father during one of his fits of rage over their mother's memoirs...
Thus they indicate, among other things, how he felt about his successive loves. In the early '30s, for instance, Picasso fell in love with a blonde Swiss girl named Marie-Thérèse Walter, 33 years younger than he. Marie-Thérèse-unlike the social-climbing Olga, who preceded her, and the sharply intelligent, gifted and nervous Dora Maar, who was her successor-presented no threat to him at all. She was a passive...
...undemanding odalisque; and with her Picasso, then 50, found a pitch of sexual happiness, which, if he had enjoyed it before, had not shown so conspicuously in his work. Marie-Thérèse inspired a sequence of erotic images which are unique in modern art. Not since Ingres's Bain Turc had sexual feeling been made so concrete in painting. The slow, swelling, profoundly organic rhythms of Nude on a Black Couch, 1932 (41) are a visual equivalent to Blake's praise of "the lineaments of satisfied desire"; even the philodendron, which rises behind Marie-Th...
Epic Gesture. What the paintings of Marie-Thérése are to pleasure, the portraits of Dora Maar that cluster round Guernica and continue through World War II are to pain. One cannot look at the terrifying, dislocated features of Weeping Woman, 1937 (42), or Picasso's cat tearing up a live bird (46), without recognizing them as indictments of war. The climax of Picasso's concern was of course Guernica, 1937. This enormous canvas was Picasso's counterpart to Goya's Third of May and Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People...