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ALBERT MARQUET-Knoedler, 14 East 57th. Matisse said of him: "He is our Hokusai." But Marquet, though cunning and concise with lines, was a painter more dexterous than daring. He was also well-traveled, painted the harbors of Hamburg, Le Havre, Naples, Algiers with a tourist's sweeping gaze, as well as Paris scenes. One hundred works cover 49 years. Through...
MODEST CUIXART-Bonino, 7 West 57th. Spanish Painter Cuixart mixes his own concoction of materials, juxtaposes baroque designs with flesh-colored cubist construction. Sensuous red and black lines speak of darkness and calamity. Through...
HUGH TOWNLEY-Pace, 9 West 57th. A Brown University art professor nails together all kinds of wood (walnut, oak, mahogany, cherry, maple, rosewood) and, with whalebone and horn, exploits the different shapes, grains and tones to endow his abstract anomalies with a curious vitality. Says he: "I want a thing that provokes and tantalizes and satisfies ... a bitchy piece of sculpture that lives." On view: 15 such pieces in relief and in the round. Through...
WORLD'S FAIR ARTISTS-Parsons, 24 West 57th. Sculpture and paintings of ten U.S. artists whose murals adorn the exterior of the New York State Pavilion: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Chamberlain, Kelly, Liberman, Indiana, Warhol, Rosenquist, Agostini, Mallary. Through...
GEORGE ORTMAN-Wise, 50 West 57th. In "illuminations" and painting constructions, Ortman juggles signs and symbols into colorful allegories. Also drawings, prints, sculpture. Through...