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Kookie Pedigree. As the museum and Seitz's excellent commentary show, the assemblers have a distinguished, somewhat wood, spires, brush and rod plus a graceful fivesome of wheels by Ettore Colla. kookie, pedigree. One ancestor is Picasso, who in 1912 painted a cubist picture of ordinary objects, threw in the letters J O U (to indicate journal, and hence day-to-day experience), pasted on some oilcloth with a chair-cane pattern, and finally framed the whole thing with a piece of rope. Picasso was creating no ordinary still life: he arranged his painted objects just as the later...
...their cubist paintings, Picasso, Braque and Gris were proclaiming that the commonplace, placed smack before the eye. was something to be enjoyed on its own. But the cubists were not the only contributors. The futurists had focused attention on objects that caught the spirit of the age of speed and steel. The Dadaists fractured tradition by denying all standards-at least in theory-of beauty; the surrealists took it as their privilege "to put everything completely out of place," and the collagists pasted paper, cloth, and other materials into pictures...
With this philosophy. Dotremont has made himself Europe's leading collector of American art: 40 of his 140 paintings are from the U.S. His made-in-America flower bursts crowd the walls, halls, ante rooms and garage of his cubist suburban Brussels home. This week 85 that had been on loan for a one-collector show at Basel's Kunsthalle were back where dapper, 63-year-old Dotremont could vibrate to them. In addition to European moderns such as Dubuffet and Mathieu, there was a great acreage of Americans, notably Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Willem...
Working crudely, the burglars gave Matisse's Woman at the Fountain a hole in the head, tore a new twist in a cubist Picasso, Lady with a Hat, made off with four-fifths of a Miro, and, in seizing Leger's Composition with Three Sisters, left behind a patch of the girls' background. Ignorantly mistaking a paper strip of a Picasso collage for the whole work of art. they tried to rip it off and ruined a work valued at more than $100,000. They got away with six Picassos, two Legers, a Miro and a Dufy...
Even coincidence smiled on the collection. Three paintings never before seen in the U.S. share and contribute to the gentle aura that pervades the whole. Cubist Georges Braque calmly analyzes an end table littered with fruit and knick-knacks in a brown and green oil lent by Art Patron Mrs. Louise Smith. Industrial ist Alex Lewyt lent Pierre Bonnard's landscape of a country byway. Former Ambassador John Hay Whitney contributed Vuillard's rosy-hued canvas of a young woman relaxing at her embroidery...