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realistic and picturesque, and a lot of portraits: Mrs. Heart, Mrs. Lydic Hoyt, the Duchess of Alba; a whole series of women, all dressed as Spanish senoritas, and then a series of nudes, sort of modern versions of Goya's “Portrait of the Duchess of Alba.” And portraits of bullfighters. It was a very dramatic exhibition and it attracted over 80,000 people to this gallery, and we sold about $250,000 worth of pictures and commissions for portraits.

And this was something you instigated?

Yes. I instigated this. I insisted on it, as a matter of fact. And we were finally smothered by people and things, we were just overcome with it. I did the publicity for it as well.

Did you have a feeling that this was something the public would respond to?

Yes, yes, I thought they would respond to it. Remember, this was when people were interested in Spanish furniture and Spanish archetecture and decoration. Remember, in Palm Beach there was a sort of Spanish era and in California there was sort of a Spanish archetecture era. We were in it, and women wore Spanish shawls instead of evening coats, and this was a timely moment for it, and it was a great success.