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...involved a rare trip into the outside world for the 62-year-old nun who has spent 34 years of her life behind convent walls. Yet in the outside world she is fast becoming a celebrity. Artists and connoisseurs of Paris compare her work with that of Rembrandt, Durer, Goya. French countesses drive out from Paris to the convent at Meudon where she painstakingly turns out her strong, tortured etchings. But Mère Geneviève takes no notice of the sudden fame that might have dazzled her 34 years ago, when she was Marcelle Gallois, Paris art student...
...central market] dressed in a tuxedo and with a terrific hangover, and tried to sell father's bananas. Naturally he fired me, and gave me an allowance to copy the old masters in the Louvre. I found it perfectly easy to copy Leonardo, El Greco and Delacroix, but Goya was too difficult for me on account of his half-tones. After one year in the Louvre I decided to stay in my room and do my copying from reproductions. Father never knew the difference...
Fogg Museum opened an exhibit yesterday that shows how a connoisseur can spot a painting as an original. The six-week display, "Connoisseurship Step by Step," features works by Durer, Degas, Toulouse-Lautree, Rembrandt, and Goya...
...married a wealthy widow from Argentina, founded a topflight cultural magazine, La España Moderna. Lazaro's collection included such old masters as Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco and Goya, plus masses of coins, medallions, jewels, miniatures, tapestries, antiques, ivories, armor, enamels and sculptures. It was always open to visitors-with two notable exceptions. The first was the brother who had smashed his terra cotta. The second was William Randolph Hearst -"That I will never allow," snorted Lazaro. "He started the Spanish-American...
...weary, for some of the drawings were as bad as others were good. Among the worst were railroad yards briary enough to be mistaken for bad etchings of French cathedrals. Among the best were two drawings of a girl named Grazielle, done with such directness and bite that Goya himself would not have been ashamed of them...