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...International Building, found rare things in rich profusion: Sculptor Hoffman's plaques of Pavlova and such of her studies of ceremonial dancers as the Mongolian Bowman (see cut); designs and sketches by such famed Europeans as Christian Bérard, Mariette Lydis, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain. Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, Léon Bakst; drawings made by Nijinsky in his Swiss sanatorium; masks from Africa and masks by W. T. Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French and U. S. photographers. The handsomely printed program announced...
...under new categories. Reasons appear for praising El Greco more than Botticelli and Raphael. But though Author Cheney thus revaluates Western art by a universal standard of "formal values," he recognizes the greatness of illustrative, objective art. By the time a reader arrives after 900 pages at Matisse and Derain, Braque and Picasso, he neither needs nor is given any disproportionate talk on these artists...
...Also worthy of any gallery-goer's attention was a Derain show at the Brummer Gallery, a Reginald Marsh exhibition at the Rehn Galleries. Bushy-lipped walter Pach laid himself open to the annual attack of fellow art critics by showing his most recent water colors at the Kleemann Galleries. Durand-Ruel went down to their cellars and produced about a half million dollars worth of Renoirs, and at the Gallery of American Indian Art, a show of water colors went on view by the darling of Santa Fe's art colony, the plump and talented Pueblo squaw...
Gauguin in his break with Impression evolved a new theory of his own, Synthesism, which was followed and carried to an even further degree by such men as Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck. This theory is a conscious grouping of selected forms with strong and evident pattern, while the colors used are absolute rather than naturalistic, effects of sunlight and atmosphere being disregarded...
...gave a group of her bargains to Dartmouth College. Last week she gave most of the rest to the Museum of Modern Art. There were 181 water colors, drawings and a few paintings by 71 men and women, including Peter Blume, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, André Derain, John Kane the housepainter (see above), Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso. Said the Museum's President, A. Conger Goodyear: "Next to the bequest of Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller's gift is the most important one that the Museum has received...