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ELMER BISCHOFF-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. One of the brightest exemplars of the figurative San Francisco school, which more than a decade ago sprang full-bloom from abstract expressionism, Bischoff neatly tucks nymphs in the waves of a white-capped breakwater or barely hides them behind the curtain of a sun-filled room. Through...
RICARDO MARTÍNEZ-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. Emerging from a shroud of oil, the monumental figures of Mexico's Martínez strain at the bondage of the canvas' confines as if to divulge some ancient mystery. Through...
JEAN MESSAGIER-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. A small retrospective going back to 1952 shows the growth of a school-of-Paris painter who caresses the canvas with soft shades of green and blue, or swings his brush in long, looping swirls of orange, summoning the rustle of the wind or June's last still day. Through...
BERNARD REDER-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. A posthumous tribute shows 20 bronze sculptures and 50 graphics. Reder brilliantly skipped from classical to Old Testament subjects to pure fantasy: he planted blossoms in the back of a cat, perched a cow precariously on a trapeze. The most impressive work is an 8-ft. Aaron gingerly holding the tabernacle in his huge hands. Through...
CORNEILLE - Lefebre, 47 East 77th. The shows by Corneille and Appel (see below) are close together and similar in interest. Both are Dutch painters, founders of Cobra, whose styles spring from the explosive spontaneity of that postwar persuasion. Corneille is a little tamer, perhaps because he chooses nature as his forte. His shapes sprawl in the lazy rhythms of an octopus treading water in a bright-colored sea of protoplasmic forms. Through April...