Word: chiricos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years white-maned, heavy-jowled Painter Chirico has held to his contention that surrealism's fodder is worthless fare. Now he got around to blasting the sins (or possibly imitations of the sins) of his own youth. Squawked Chirico: 19 out of 25 "early Chiricos" exhibited recently by Paris' Galerie Allard were counterfeit Chiricos...
...Chirico (pronounced keerico) had long since holed up in a cluttered Rome studio to wait out modern art. Nowadays the aging (58) Italian master blushes at the melancholy fantasies-full of staring colonnades, long black five-o'clock shadows, twisted manikins-which made him famous. He had since passed through a Renoir period, a Titian-Tintoretto period and into a Salvator Rosa period...
...enough to be damned for the works of maturity, and to be praised for his youthful foibles. But, said Chirico, to put up with the "handiwork of an unskilled copyist, the output of a veritable mill...
Colossal Fraud. He had just received from the U.S. James Thrall Soby's definitive book The Early Chirico (Dodd, Mead; $3), and denounced as "forgeries" two reproductions in it, one of them The Double Dream of Spring (see cut). The Paris exhibition made him even madder. Said he last week, in a letter to Rome's Giornale d'Italia: "It is a colossal fraud which could only be perpetrated in the French capital, due to the absolute decadence into which the so-called art circles have fallen...
Paris' Galerie Allard immediately called a court official to witness that the paintings had been taken down and the show closed. One of its officers guessed that Chirico "has been looking for this incident. . . It may also be that he is trying to withdraw from art collectors his first paintings...