Stark's Missing Bit Mystery

Hollywood producer Ray Stark amassed a collection of paintings and sculpture that was as notorious as it was illustrious- his estate bequeathed twenty-eight of the sculptures to the J. Paul Getty Trust last month, Sharon Waxman writes in the New York Times. Take the six-foot piece by the 20th-century Italian sculptor Marino Marini. It might not have equaled, artistically speaking, some of Stark's other masterpieces, like the eight-foot-tall Standing Woman I, by Alberto Giacometti, or the bronzes by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, which will all be on permanent display outdoors at the J. Paul Getty Museum as early as next year. But as a Hollywood legend, the Marini was hard to surpass. As several of Stark's friends tell it, the 1949 bronze of a naked man with his arms outstretched bestride a horse was missing an original detail - the man's erect penis. Irish Art