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...extraordinary new show in Manhattan demonstrates the versatility of the 18th century rococo master Jean- Honore Fragonard...
...popular reputation, Jean-Honore Fragonard is often dismissed as a purveyor of teasingly erotic marzipan: images of rose-cheeked, button-eyed demimondaines in leafy bowers, often dallying with wan, wigged swains. The extraordinary exhibition of Fragonard's works that opened last week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and that can be seen there until May 8, amply demonstrates the limiting inaccuracy of that view. In reality, Fragonard was probably the most versatile of the great masters of 18th century French...
...dancers, who range in age from 19 to 23, were delightful, but the standouts were Margaret Tracey, 19, who joined the company only eight months ago, and her partner, Jeffrey Edwards, 22, a veteran of not quite two years. The world of Fragonard may never have existed, but these two created it in their performance, Tracey with her perfect placement and polished gaiety of manner, Edwards with his ardor and already superior partnering...
...after 1925. Today his work goes for big prices and is assiduously promoted. It is therefore not surprising that the Biennale should devote several rooms to him. However, the qualities of La Pittura Colta go far beyond, or below, De Chirico's fussy homages to Rubens, Titian or Fragonard. Its exponents, such as Carlo Maria Mariani, Stefano di Stasio or Omar Galliani, never use such "warm" sources. As shown by Mariani's Ercole che Riposa, they prefer the cold touch of marble and the frigid contortions of mannerism. Their dream of beauty is a simpering Apollo...
DIED. David Carritt, 55. master sleuth of the old masters who rediscovered an unmatched array of rare and valuable paintings; of cancer; in London. Art historian, dealer and critic, Carritt had an unerring eye that enabled him to buy a misattributed Fragonard masterpiece at a public auction, under the noses of other top experts, at a tiny fraction of its present million-dollar value. "When you've become familiar with the work of a master, it's like recognizing a friend's handwriting," he once said. Among his finds were five Francesco Guardi canvases rolled...