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...— Paula Mari....
...Probably inspired by the depredations of the Franco-Prussian war, the painting’s subject is an Amazonian girl-child, with toilet-brush hair and rictus grin, who is riding over a field of crow-pecked corpses...
...Exhibitions in Bogotá and Franco’s Spain in the 1950s were cut short. Sierra, a close friend, says: “She was rejected by her class and society and decided not to exhibit any more....
...Other publishers, notably Anagrama and Tusquets, “allowed a breath of fresh air into Franco’s stuffy Spain”....
...Franco Zeffirelli: Complete Works, edited by Caterina Napoleone, Thames & Hudson RRP£95 A coffee table book to die for – and possibly from, if it were to fall on you from a great height....
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