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...Matta canvases colors explode and splash, while the unearthly landscapes by the late Ives Tanguy. who was one of Soby's closest friends, are strewn with strange shapes, which led Tanguy to call one painting The Furniture of Time. The collection has a dung-colored landscape by Jean Dubuffet ("the strongest painter in postwar France"), a couple of childlike fantasies by Paul Klee ("the vigilant ally of accidental beauty"), an unusually appealing Liberation by Ben Shahn showing three small French girls swinging wildly in the air upon the liberation of France...
...show also offered a delicate "texturol-ogy" by Jean Dubuffet-a painting that looks at first like a piece of kitchen linoleum but then turns into a vision of outer space. The thick black crisscrossings of Pierre Soulages nicely complement Hans Hartung's "psychograms," which try to portray emotion through tapered lines of pure force...
Prints - especially in signed, limited editions - were one answer to the poor man's status search. Signed color lithographs by Dubuffet and Braque sold for $45 and $75 at the University of Chicago show. New York's Juster Gallery offered such signed works as a Miró color etching for $90, a Picasso poster for $75. The Associated American Artists started with Raphael Soyer at $14.75, and its unsigned prints included a $19.50 Manet, a $32.50 Chagall, a $40 Renoir, a $70 Cézanne, a $190 Rouault...
...critics, who once scorned Dubuffet, now, according to TIME, call him "the most important painter to come out of postwar France." But the public continues to scorn him, because he is ahead of his times and the public, as usual, is behind the times...
...Congratulations on your Dubuffet article. It is good to see a painter working fresh connections of mind and eye. More strong digestions like his are needed to assimilate the art of the past and give the impetus necessary to handle new facets of today's vision. His work is not cruel but intelligently kind...