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...girl, Mona Freeman is competent, but somewhat weak. She is never out of key, but rarely displays either force or originality. This may simply show a conflict between the author, who leads to underplaying, and the director, Joshua Logan, who usually does...
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...said in your May 20 story "New Leonardo?" that "in the U.S. only two purported Leonardos exist, both of doubtful authenticity." I am not qualified to pass judgment on them, but since 1797 we have had in our family what we are confident is an original Mona Lisa. We do not believe it is "purported," although some people may. We have adequate proof by an outstanding art critic and others that it is by the hand of Leonardo. It is known as the "Vernon Leonardo...
...Leonardo da Vinci's enduring fame, less than 30 of his paintings (including the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper) have come down to posterity. In the U.S. only two purported Leonardos exist, both of doubtful authenticity.* This week the Detroit Institute of Arts put on display a third painting attributed to Leonardo that has never before been publicly exhibited: The Adoration with Two Angels, presumably done in Leonardo's youth (between 1472 and 1478) while he was still working in Andrea del Verrocchio's studio in Florence...
...seemed tired and tattered, its once-youthful stars well past middle age. Even the exhibits had lost most of their punch-Man Ray's ticking metronome with a staring eye impaled on the blade, entitled Object to Destroy; Marcel Duchamp's bearded and mustachioed version of the Mona Lisa; a mirror into which visitors peered until they saw the title, Portrait of an Imbecile...