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...pills and black coffee, Pogostin and Mulligan had built a play that pleased both Olivier and Producer David Susskind. In the process, they lost some of the novel's dark energy; they never adequately explained how a respectable British stockbroker named Charles Strickland (modeled on famed Painter Paul Gauguin) could abandon wife and family for a new career as an artist-or why, after he seduced Blanche Stroeve (Jessica Tandy), wife of his best friend (Hume Cronyn), Blanche later turned to suicide. But the play's bright scenes, brilliantly colored, were as bold and carefully constructed...
...Gauguin, great soul, Holy Barbarian...
...Cincinnati, but there he is at last free to foliate as he pleases-and peeping through the foliage is a ripe young secretary. But the most surprising development of this renaissance is artistic. A lifelong doodler, the AWOL diplomat tries a little weekend sketching and (here we Gauguin!) is startled to find that he is an artist of astonishing power-a Rubens, perhaps, with a touch of Renoir. Within a year he is in Paris, painting his broad-hipped housemaid by day, panting for her by night. But the late-blooming bohemian's idyl is broken by Edith...
...century, the atmosphere is established by two great works in it--both of them by Picasso, both dated 1901. La Femme au Chignon is a pre-Blue Period work in which the elongations and winding curves of the Art Nouveau and the flat picture plane and pure colors of Gauguin are employed to render a mood which is Picasso's alone. The other painting, the Maternite, is a great masterpiece of the Blue Period, an altar-piece of modern painting. Its cool blues, El Grecoesque modeling of the light on the draperies, and monumental rendering add up to the finest...
...Edward M. M. Warburg, on view at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. There are some excellent works in the collection: Picasso's famous Blue Boy, some fine drawings by Cezanne, Millet and Seymour Reminick, and some first rate sculpture by Lehmbruck, Matisse, Lachaise, Epstein and, of all people, Paul Gauguin. These works alone are worthy of a trip to the Busch's isolated headquarters on Kirkland and Divinity Avenues. Generally, however, the rather uneven quality of the exhibition tends to ensure a quick run-through of the works which merit attention on the part of the artgoer. An inclusive exhibition...