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...orchards of modern art. Their shabby Latin Quarter ateliers held the first green fruits of freedom. The sidewalk cafés of Paris rocked and rang with their back-slapping and boasting. Les Fauves, "the wild beasts" and their far-from-tame friends had taken over-Matisse, Braque, Derain, Duchamp, Rouault, and Picasso in command...
...examples of French and U.S. modern art. They adopted a motto, "The New Spirit," and distributed thousands of buttons bearing the pine-tree flag of the American Revolution. Probably 250,000 people saw the "Armory Show," and for a good many the experience was horrifying. For a glimpse of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (see cut], they had to stand in line...
Collecting Art & Artists. Peggy did not become seriously interested in modern art until 1937, when she was 39. To learn what it was all about she went to see Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp. "Every woman in Paris wanted to sleep with him," she confides. "His particular vice was ugly mistresses." Duchamp passed her on to Sculptor Hans Arp, "an excellent poet and a most amusing man. . . . The first thing I bought for my collection was an Arp bronze...
...Museum, which was host last week to "European Artists in America," a show limited to work by 39 Continental refugees. The display ranged all the way from swooning sensuality (Nude Reclining, an oil by Moise Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn with broken propeller parts, spilt putty, the detached, heraldic bowsprits...
...Walter Gropius, France's Le Corbusier, the U.S.'s Raymond Hood. In 1935, it successfully arranged the American canonization of Vincent van Gogh. In 1936, its Cubism and Abstract Art show was a glamorously complete record of the quarter-century since that September Morn of cubism: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. In later shows the Museum assembled Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, the works of Picasso. Over the years it has coyly flirted with lusty, callow, sometimes triumphant...