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...stone by hand, are supplying compositions to dealers in Florence and the U.S. Blow reports especially encouraging sales in Texas: "People from Texas are crazy about designs of pistols and playing cards." With his current exhibit almost sold out, Blow has already commissioned designs from Italian Painters Giorgio de Chirico and Massimo Campigli, is hoping to interest Picasso, Braque and Miro. "Intarsia may be a minor art," says bluff Dick Blow, "but hell, it's better to turn out a good piece of minor art than a bad piece of major...
...dean of Italian painters takes a dim view of modern art, even when it is" his own. Giorgio de Chirico, 63, would like to be known for the neoclassical nudes and warriors, done in lush, candy-box style, which he paints today. Instead, he is famed for the works of his youth: surrealistic cityscapes laced with long shadows. Such pictures simply embarrass De Chirico nowadays. Last week his embarrassment was acute...
...Angeles collector had bought a signed and certified early De Chirico in Milan, and then asked the artist to authenticate it. Cried De Chirico: Fake! The collector promptly took his canvas, An Italian Square, to court...
...Chirico contested the suit. He recalled that he had painted a similar picture with the same title back in 1913, but the train smoke in that one had been different. "I painted the smoke in the form of a globe," he said-not in the form of a small cloudlet. Art experts and three former owners of the painting pooh-poohed the distinction. After hearing the evidence, the court handed down its judgment: De Chirico had peevishly denied his own work, must pay costs plus 330,000 lire ($500) in damages...
Most critics ignored both De Chirico's sideshow and his rasping taunts, but the influential Italian weekly Europeo struck back: "De Chirico's [new paintings] are dry, trite, and the images toneless . . . It is not enough to wish in words for a renaissance...