Tropical Art

flB sk anyone what JH three books he'd IW bring to a desert I H island and he'll LI probably name the ■ Bible, The Complete I Works of ShakeMHspeare, and Boat Building Made Easy. But ask him what three paintings he'd bring and he'll probably say he never thought about it.

Philippe de Montebello, director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, chose three works housed in Europe. Ever her own woman, Madonna wanted works exclusively from her personal collection. Artist David Salle chose a Titian that shows "the cruelty of fate without being overwrought," a Manet whose "fatalistic cynicism would make it easier to leave the world behind," and a Jackson Pollock because "the drip paintings make you feel everything truly great and transcendent is in our imaginations."

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Thomas Ammann Swiss art dealer Nu sur la Plage et Pelle Pablo Picasso Personal collection Grand Nu Couché Henri Matisse Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art Endless Column Constantin Brancusi Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Brook. Astor Philanthropist, writer Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici Jacopo Carucci, called Pontormo J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu St. Jerome El Greco Frick Collection, New York City Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden John Constable Frick Collection, New York City

Madonna Singer-actress My Birth Frida Kablo Personal collection Self-portrait with Monke: Frida Kablo Personal collection L'Heure Bleu Tamara tie Lempicka Personal collection

Robertson Davies Author Adoration of the Mystic Lamb Hubert and Jan van Eyck St. Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent Book of Kells (Illuminated) Trinity College, Dublin Biblia Latina (Illuminated) Michele da Genova Glasgow University Library

Philippe de Montebello Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art Las Meninas Diego VelAzquez Museo del Prado, Madrid The Inspiration of the Poet Nicolas Poussin Louvre, Paris The Ghent Altarpiece Hubert and Jan van Eyck St. Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent

Jackie Mason Comedian, raconteur "A piece of a wall with graffiti on it from any New York street so I feel like I'm at home. "Van Gogh's Irises for collateral in case I have to buy my way off this cockamamy island. "Any Nonnan Rockwell painting because that way I'll be able to remember what a Gentile in the Midwest looks like."

Mout Janklow Literary agent Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Pablo Picasso Museum of Modern Art, New York City Terrace at Ste. Adresse Claude Monet Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City L'Extravagante Jean Dubuffet Personal collection

David Salle Artist The Flaying of Marsyas Titian StdtnI Zdmek, Kt~miWi, Czechoslovakia A Bar a,t the Folies-BergIres Edouard Manet Courtauld institute Galleries, London One (Number 31, 1950) Jackson Pollock Museum of Modern Art, New York City