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During World War I, Picabia, who had inherited his father's fortune, found his true artistic climate in the cynically irreverent Dada movement. As a Dadaist he took apart clocks and made pictures by tracing their inner organs, mounted a stuffed monkey on a board and called it Portrait of Cezanne, edited and contributed to magazines with such names as 291, 391, Cannibale...
Metropolitan newspapermen had a field day Tuesday at the slight expense of the Liberal. Union and an impromptu Dada demonstration. Practically overy dispatch labelled the dadaist's parade as "conservative" or "opposition," evidently mistaking them for members of the Conservative League, whose threatened counter march failed to materialize...
...circles had already read of topflight French painters touring Germany as honored guests (TIME, June 29). They got an equally surprising picture last week of the artist's life in war-torn France. Painter of the picture, done in the gayest of colors, was famed Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, whose Nude Descending A Staircase was the hottest artistic cause...
...Dadaist Duchamp's account of his own flight sounded like a whimsically eventful Cook's tour. He said he posed as a cheese merchant, got out of Occupied France without any trouble at all, finally got a U.S. visa in Marseille on the strength of an affidavit from a friend in Hollywood (Author Walter Conrad Arensburg, who bought his Nude Descending...
...dignified, Romanesque doorway of the Yale University Art Gallery last fortnight arrived 450 strange-looking canvases, ranging from geometric abstractions to fantastic Dadaist scrawls: the second largest private collection of 20th-Century art in the U.S.* To hang of all 450 pictures, the Yale Art Gallery would have to build an extra wing. But meanwhile, Yale's gallery director, Theodore Sizer, planned to show the public as much as he could...