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...year long probe of worldwide money laundering. The probe -- called "Operation Dinero" and conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and officials from Italy, Spain and Britain -- also found links between the Italian Mafia and the Cali cartel in Columbia. Along the way, agents seized paintings by Rubens, Picasso and Reynolds from drug smugglers. The DEA used a private bank in the British West Indies to nab the cartel members. Seven Colombian drug trafficking and laundering organizations opened accounts at the bank, providing agents called "an unprecedented window" into the way drug organizations work...
...little too great for unaccustomed eyes." Among those "others" have been most of the best French artists of the past two centuries -- not only the classicists like Ingres, for whom Poussin's lucidity and intellectual control were a model, but more romantic ones as well, from Delacroix to Picasso, all of whom sensed the depth of response to the world that lay below the surface of the painter's art. "Each time I go to him," said Cezanne, "I know better...
...show contains five Picassos which testify to his productivity and versatility. Picasso was a master at learning styles while infusing them with his own heritage. For example, The Races at Auteull is a creamy confection of Impressionistic and post-Impressionistic techniques. Painted in 1901, around the time when he first moved to Paris, the bright palette of yellows and greens can be likened to the hues of Toulouse-Lautrec's works. In some places, the brushwork is feathery like Renoir's; in other places, it is more deliberate and thick like Van Gogh's. There are three pairs of women...
...women stare out at the viewer. Even Amedeo Modigliani's Portrait of a Girl, which is the only complete frontal portrait in the show, has eyes covered with aquamarine paint, making her eyeslits seem like precious stones. As girlish as she looks, she seems on the verge of womanhood. Picasso's Woman in a Turkish Costume dissects the sitter and renders her face with the same ostentation as her costume...
...works not shown that might be displayed later (the exhibit will run well into the first couple of months of 1995) are two still-lifes of oranges by Picasso and the Fauvist Maurice de Vlaminck. If these works were placed side by side like the Picasso and Braque, each one would help enhance the other through their differing uses of color, texture and anthropomorphism...