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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 17, - 1985.74
NO SALE FOR ART TREASURE
FAMOUS VELAZQUEZ
PAINTING
SPAIN NOT A BUYER
(Special)
Madrid, June 1, "To be given away, free, gratis and for nothing, half a Velazquez; painting for which 100,000 pesetas" were onee offered. a Intest work "The Bohemians" will be be cut in half, one portion to given to a foreign art gallery, the other to be sold. Apply to Doha Consuelo Ruiz, 9 Andres Mellado Street, Madrid."
18
year
This advertisement, published in a Madrid morning newspaper,
the climax to an in struggle to persuade the Spanish government to purchase the pic- ture for the state, and exhibit, ft in some public art gallery. The struggle has ended in failure.
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NEW BATHERS
THE newest bathing suits are to have no visible means of sup- Thirty years ago, the painting. which represents the head and port this summer, but they will be shoulders of two beggars, came made of a material which elinga modest to the figure and so makes them into the possension of a painter Jose diaz Pavon, exactly safe, how is not known.
an
WOR
TRADESMEN HOUSED IN. PALACES
ONLY VIENNA'S BEAUTY SURVIVES
OLD FAMILIES IMPOVERISHED
Vienna.
With the sale of Prince Salm's palace here lately, Vienna's palaces, former homes of wealthy aristo- erals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, are now practically all used as shops, hotels, oflices and foreign embassies.
Money has been too scarce and Vienna's love for them too great to permit that they be torn down for modern commercial purposes and they still retain the oil facades and outer architecture of former times.
of
In Vienna's fashionable streets of modern shops the upper storeys with their mediaeval Windows, in the style of the 17th and 18th cen- turies, still reveal the respective taste of aristocratic families.
Counts The palace of the Esterhazy is now the home of an English iniloring firm. The Bar- madonna statue in a niche in the tulotti palace, with its charming wall, houses a well-known dress establishment; likewise also the palaces of the Counts Cavrian!, Sinn, Walterskirchen and Erdoedy.
On the famona Josef Square, After his death, the dirty-look-ulsa, a short, dark-haired, round- celebrated for the perfect syn- ing painting lay hidden away in faced senorita, vlaited ministers inetry of its ground plan, Marquis tireless Pallavicini's palaco, cruwned by an the painter's and civil servants, with attic. Bul
to persuade enormous double eagle, now houses a large number of firms. It was daughter. Luisa, grew up filled energy, attempting
of art. them to take over the painting in front of this palace's classically with a passionate love
within her designed doorway that the sculp- inherited from her father, and When success
uk the time Domingo tor, Baron Zauner, committed sui- one day, whilst cleaning the attic, grasp, she came ngross the picture, Barnes was minister of education, cide when he discovered he had for- new gotten to add the horses' hoofs to his equestrian statue of Emperor covered
with dust, completely the government fell, and a
minister held the portfolio.
Josef, which stands in the middle forgotten.
be started of this square. Here is also the beautiful palace of the Prince of from the beginning again. But allfy, with whose ancestor Big- still she perafted with her self-marek stayed for his son's wed imposed mission, until at last, ding. she has now found herself obliged to give it up.
Her work had to
from
The palace of the family of Caprara is now the ulices of the British Consulate. Mr. Bernadt-
volutionary tri-colour out of one
A swift cleaning revealed with life-like vividness the old, hearded tramp leering out of the canvas, with a vicious dissipated young man at his side. The colouring, the subject and the treatment ap- peared to be Velazquez, but the Now she is willing to sell thette, then French Ambassador to painter's daughter was not sure. painting to anyone making a good Austria, caused a tremendous set- So she took the picture in its cheaper, after having turned downsation by hanging the French re-
offers ranging brass frame along to an art ex- į previous
50.000 to 100,000 pesetas. pert, who told her he thought it Velazquez En-
WHY CUT IT UP! was a genuine
condition couraged, Luisa Diaz persuaded But there is the Academy of Fine Arts to have tached to the parting with
will crit the the picture examined by experts. pieture. Luisa This was done on two occasions, portrait in half, seiling one por-
tion to any private buyer or nt- in 1923 and 1932, when tempt was made to deny that presentative of na art gallery, and the other will go free to a foreign despera- was the last work of Velazquez. gallery. That is, if in
tion, Luiza does not in the mean time damage the picture beyond repair.
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was the
HAND OF MASTER" Further support was forthcom- ing from the painter, Carlos
"As a justification." Mediavilla, who stated "the at- reply. "If I damage the painting, mosphere, the attitude of both then the state will have to have the are unmistakable. Only it repaired. as it is one of our masters of that great school treasures of Spain. Then when could have created the picture. the picture is restored, they will see that it is all that I have made But there is even more. If this it out to be. Then I shall not the torture and atmosphere is examined, one can have suffered not do less than attribute it 16 agony of these past 18 years for
figures reveal Velazquez. The
in a clear and definite manner the sure hand of this master."
nothing..
of these windows in 1798, from which the street Fahnengasso got its name. Bernadotte later be- came King of Sweden, following the murder of Gustav II, at a masked ball.
Many duels have been fought
row of shops. It was here that outside the Rofrano palace, now a the celebrated fight occurred be- tween Prince Eugene of Savoy! famous Austrian war-hero, and a young man who had provoked him. The fatter, on finding out from the spectators who his adversary was, killed himself with his own sword. The name Rofrano occurs in the opera "Rosencavalier".
Prince Eugenie, wealthy bachelor
and grand seigneur, built himself the most famous and luxurious of Vienna's palaces, The Belvedere
now a museum.
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7 Describes a race.
8 Quile an ancient alteration will which Londoners are familiar Polite and sure to give satisfac (two words, 3. 6).
tion.
11 The spirit that a Frenchman can appreciate, as shown in a trio of letters (three words 1, 2, 3). 12. Gives the rest to nie, not being
in the least near,
14 It might be as weit. 16 Rested.
18 Gives a soft sound to the third
letter.
20 This dog is never down at
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Fen Biblical king.
24 It is thus arranged to close. 26 How to make a
moniously.
6 Encore!
9 Where the animals live-at the
top of the valley.
13 Drose.
16 What Shakespearean character "We cannot all be muster"? Pid, 17' It might be nasty accident, or show the existence of a secret agreement.
10 Lines which show no restraint.. 21 In among idole, so one thinks. 23 If it does it shows that some
effect has been made.
25 A
shout at us crosses the gap. 27 Torn away,
28 The aerf seems to take the part of the male, though, of course.. the female was also included.
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The Czecho-Slovakian Legation has taken over Prince Lobkovitz's "A condition will attach to the palace and the Swiss legation that presentation of one half of the of the Duke of Coburg, while Count picture as it to a foreign art Schoenborn's palace, alongside the This opinion was borne out gallery. This is that the gallery offices of the United Press, houses should make known the ordeal the Dutch legation and the "All past People's Association". The Duke by Prancisco Alcantarn who was I have gone through these
shall have of Wurttemberg's grand residence 12 What is the fruit? The answer Director of the School of Ceramic 18 years. Then I
in is now an international Hotel, "The Art. Both these experts gave justified myself and my faith
Imperial". Luisa Diaz signed certifientes the painting." affirming the genuineness of painting.
the
ut
Three ostrich feathers, coat of The sun caught the painting
of arms of the Counts of Harrach, an angle as I was going out the door. The ruddy face of the still mark the entrance to their 1
to palaces, now owned by the Italian FIGHT WITH STATE
bearded old beggar seemed
But Consulate. The old shop where Then began the struggle which crease in a knowing wink. was to last 18 years, to persunde when i looked again, the one leer the Counts of Harrach manufac still a famous attraction for buyers. the state to purchase the picture. was hack and the painter's daugh- tured and sold their glassware, is
ter was looking fondly at
-United Press. Inspired with her love of art. precious possession,-United Press,
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inke and ditty.
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2 Food once much in evidence in
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4 Though a great composer he was
not entirely human. An endearment that may give rise to alarms.
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