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STILL LIFES-Schweitzer, 958 Madison Ave. at 75th. The stimulus of still life is ages old, the artist's response to it always new. Persuasive testimony to the fact: a collection that begins with Vanderhamen, a Spanish painter of Flemish ancestry who worked in Madrid more than 300 years ago, embraces Ruoppolo, Bernard, Lebasque, Marie Laurencin (a pink bouquet of roses on wood believed to be her only extant still life), Pechstein, Hartley and others, concludes with a contemporary Spaniard, Josep Roca. Through March...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. "World's Fairs-the Architecture of Fantasy" makes a retrospective visit to 16 expositions by means of prints, photographs, posters and souvenirs. Also Dutch and Flemish paintings, and the Met's superb collection of 19th and 20th century French works...
...FLEMISH MASTERS-Duveen, 18 East 79th. No Rembrandts, but no letdown either, because in this show Rembrandt's countrymen outdo themselves: Portrait by Van Dyck, Nymph by Rubens, The Last Judgment by Hieronymus Bosch, The Madonna and Child with Angels by Hans Memling. Sundry other splendors. Through March...
...Dutch and Flemish paintings, including 33 Rembrandts, and French paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries...
...called Flemish primitives were actually the first to master some of the subtler techniques of oil painting. From the triptych's wood panels, prepared with white lime, light flashes through glistening layers of oil pigments as if from the depth of the landscape. But the artist depended on more than radiant color to entrance his viewers. He extended the action into the flanking panels, breaking boldly out of the boxy frames. The turning necks of tugging horses and the upraised arms of their whipping drivers set up a motion around the spread-eagled saint that sweeps through the three...