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JEAN DUBUFFET-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. Dubuffet has rushed from mixed pastes and putties to butterfly-wing collages to painting with knives and forks. Here shown are examples of his spirit for adventure and experiment, including works from the Arabe, Texturologie and Personnage series. Oils, assemblages, gouaches and drawings, done between 1943 and 1960. Through April...
NATHANAEL NEUJEAN-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. Thirty-three small pieces in rough bronze for a Belgian sculptor's first U.S. showing. Much of his work commemorates the victims of the Nazi pogroms and stands as a monument to their courage. He endows his figures with dignity in despair, casts them in small lonely groups bound together both by human oppression and the hidden force of their own humanity. Through March...
SALUTE TO DENMARK-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. Steering a course through folklore, these modern Danes find a fresh amalgam of fantasy and feeling, aptly tagged "abstractions which are living fables." Carl-Henning Pedersen. Asger Torn. Eljer Bille, Henry Heerup, Mogens Balle. Egill Jacobsen and Preben Wölck, most for the first time in the U.S. Through March...
CLEVE GRAY-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. A sensitive colorist, Gray smears his canvases with dark primaries and brilliant pastels, composing his abstractions with a sure feel for tonal balance and direction in space. Best: Vernal, a large dynamic treatment of vertical blues against white. Through...
FRANK STELLA-Castelli, 4 East 77th. Compared with his black and white pinstripes, Stella's new deep purple progressions down the geometric mean are a burst into song. He names these paintings for friends, although only one of them is a square. For example his dealer, Leo Castelli, is a triangle. Through...