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LEONARD BASKIN-Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Nine new enigmas in bronze and wood from Smith College's bearded sculpture prof. Huge hulking owls, masks of poets and inscrutable birdmen make a cryptic metaphor of death and immortality. Through...
GEORGES ROUAULT-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. The prolific Frenchman painted thousands, burned hundreds; 20 oils, spanning 50 years, give a spare but instructive glimpse of his trademarks. Fauvist paintings of 1906-07 show passion for pure color; later, thick black lines begin to silhouette jeweled blues and clarets; the "dawn" paintings of the 1950s burst with chrome yellows and greens. Through March...
EDUARDŌ RAMIREZ and EDGAR NEGRET-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th (third floor). Two modern classicists from Colombia. In Ramirez' wood reliefs, white shade echoes white light, in which an occasional note of intense blue or black resounds. Negret makes bright, painted aluminum sculptures. A decorative show. Through...
LORETTA HOWARD-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. Passing from this traditional painter's deeply-hued, sonorous still lifes and oil portraits to the fresh air of her watercolored landscapes is like stepping from a musty drawing room into a brightly blowing summer's day. Through...
BALTHUS-Thaw, 50 East 78th. Sketchily inconsequential ink illustrations for Wuthering Heights from the early 1930s, along with other drawings on view for the first time, show the director of the Villa Medici playing erotic games in line as well as color. Through...