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Among the latter are Cesanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat, Monet's Sunshine (Belle Isle), Gauguin's Portrait of Meyer de Haan, and the Bathers With a Turtle, by Matisse. Also in the collections are Picasso, Annibale Carracci, and Dubuffet...
...come to the point swiftly: it is a stunning show. From a very handsome Madonna by Annibale Carracci, owned by Sydney J. Freedberg, professor of Fine Arts at the University, to a challenging, "uncompositional" Dubuffet, part of Mr. Pulitzer's great collection, the works displayed are of a remarkably high calibre...
Slice of Bologna. A favorite anecdote of art historians has long been the answer the Carracci gave when asked which one had painted a picture. "I Carracci; we all had a hand in it." But though in their early days all three combined forces to create frescoes for the wealthy Bologna merchants, the present exhibition clearly shows that far from being a painting factory, the Carracci were men of marked and individual bent...
...Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619), a butcher's son, was the eldest and founder of the Carracci's Academy, by preference specialized in religious subjects. Agostino (1557-1602), trained first as a goldsmith, was witty, handsome and erudite. A superb draftsman, he excelled in etching, and his paintings of broad-bottomed nudes are among the Carracci's best...
Last week the Carracci received a tribute from the greatest holdout of them all, Critic Bernard Berenson,,' who once dismissed their whole school as "worthless." Wrote Berenson in Milan's Corriere della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting...