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...century Paris, the studios of Montmartre were irresistible, so the Duchamp boys all ended up artists. Even sister Suzanne tagged along, tried her hand at brush and canvas. Last week a Manhattan exhibit of the four Duchamps gave a nostalgic glimpse of modern art's brash young cubist days, and brought the Duchamp family up to date...
RAYMOND, who died in 1918, was one of the first and ablest cubist sculptors. His powerful, beetle-browed bust of Poet Charles Baudelaire showed that he also had an impressive gift for conventional portraiture...
...BUSY TO PAINT? CALL ON THE GHOST ARTISTS. WE PAINT IT-YOU SIGN IT, read an advertisement in the Washington Post last week. Explaining further, the ad said that Ghost Artists were well qualified to turn out work in almost any manner: primitive ("Grandma Moses type"), impressionist, modern, cubist and abstract...
Perhaps the best known among the Bauhaus painters represented at the Busch-Reisinger in Paul Klee. In the last few years his colorful, semi-cubist abstractions have become more and more popular. Besides some of these oils there are a few delicate lithographs and an especially interesting etching entitled, "The Miser." In this work Klee employed a technique which he used successfully in some of his other etchings, that of two faces registering opposite emotions superimposed on each other. One face wears the expression the world sees, the other that of the subject's own personality...
Lyonel Feininger's section includes fine, sketchy prints and cubist canvasses. Although his oils are certainly interesting, none of them is particularly vivid or eye-catching...