Fortunino Matania, 70, thinks every picture should have a woman in it. In his London studio last week he pointed scornfully to the picture on his easel, a group of staid 18th Century English gentlemen in periwigs and ruffles. "Imagine!" said Artist Matania. "They ask me, me of all people, to paint a picture without women. Such sacrilege! Such a crazy world we live in!"
A whole generation of Britons would agree with Matania that the picture, commissioned by a Scottish firm "for a calendar or something," was a shocking waste of talent. Matania's...
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