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...lovers may appreciate the perky papillon, painted by Fragonard, Boucher, Velasquez and Titian. Its name derives from its butterfly-like ears. Madame de Pompadour always carried one, Marie Antoinette took hers along to prison, and Edith Wharton brought papillons to the U.S., where currently there are 158 registered...
...enraging, engaging Spanish surrealist with well-beeswaxed handlebars has arrived in Manhattan with ten surprises in tow. Samples: Galacidalacidesoxiribunu-cleicacid, Twist in the studio of Velasquez, and Fifty abstract pictures which as seen from two yards change into three Lenines masquerading as Chinese and as seen from six yards appear as the head of a royal tiger. Somehow, he frequently manages to top his titles. Through...
...Paris, went through "all the isms-expressionism, surrealism, nonobjectivism"-before settling in New York in 1941 to find his real calling: chronicling "the quintessential people of our time" from Arp to Zeckendorf, and producing a gallery always elegant and sometimes profound-as when he painted Elsa Maxwell as a Velasquez court dwarf...
...craze for pop art, he becomes "furious. When an artist paints a Campbell's Soup can, he may be saying something valid, but he cuts himself out as an artist. He is no better than the can." Goodman's own idols have always been Velasquez, Vermeer, Goya-and Rembrandt: "He paints a head and it looks right through...
...show, Milliken borrowed art from the Louvre, India, Japan and Taiwan. Altogether his catch amounted to 63 paintings, four pieces of sculpture, some goldsmith and enamel work, and a display of manuscripts from the Morgan Library. One of his regrets is that he failed to get a Velasquez, but he took his−chances. "In the museum where they had a Velasquez that I would have liked to borrow, they happened to have an El Greco which I felt was finer...