Wh was one of Picasso 's friends who acquired one of El Greco 's masterpieces ??
The anatomy of the human body becomes even more otherworldly in El Greco 's mature works ; for " The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception " El Greco asked to lengthen the altarpiece itself by another " because in this way the form will be perfect and not reduced , which is the worst thing that can happen to a figure ' " .