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...Chirico Y. Chirico...
...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...
Perhaps even Chirico could not be sure which of the Galerie Allard's paintings were Chiricos. His own guesstimate of his output is "between two and three thousand canvases." But whether or not some of his early paintings were counterfeit, critics infinitely preferred them to his recent products. Chirico, who once led the parade along with Picasso and Matisse, had run out of gas long ago. Now all he could do was blow his horn...