In Painter Pablo Picasso's big Left Bank garret studio last week an impressive group of French intellectuals†met to hasten the overthrow of Dictator Francisco Franco.
Against the walls were stacked scores of the most controversial paintings in the world. The plotters sat in an uncubistic circle. As their breath congealed in the frigid studio air (which Picasso's tall, elegant stove failed to thaw), a multi-planed, reclining nude regarded them with an angular eye.
The "French Intellectuals' Committee to Help Spain'' had reconstituted itself right after France's liberation. It had arranged this meeting, one of whose purposes was to organize all anti-Franco...
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