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Sapone's skillful needle has earned him paintings by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Massimo Campigli, Alberto Magnelli and Hans Hartung, as well as sculptures by Diego Giacometti and a collage by Clave. The exchange began by accident 14 years ago, soon after the mustachioed little tailor, an expatriate Italian from the mountain village of Bellona near Naples, and his wife Slava opened shop on the Riviera. One day the Florentine ceramist and painter Manfredo Borsi ordered a suit. "If you prefer," Borsi imperiously suggested, "I will pay you with one of my paintings." Sapone did not really prefer...
PORTRAITS of Saul Steinberg, William Faulkner, Giacometti (running to breakfast in the rain) show another facet of his genius. He gathers up wonderful details of his subjects' surroundings to capture them and attach them to a real world, rather than idealize and abstract them. The Faulkner picture sticks in my mind in such a way that whenever I think of him, I return to his face and thin body and yet also to the small lean dog who stretches behind...
...keyed Sarnoff is a curious mixture of the modern and the conservative. The president's office in Manhattan's RCA building is adorned with abstract sculptures by Giacometti and De Rivera, and its occupant takes particular pride in the company's futuristic new logo, which is emblazoned in 24-ft.-high letters near the top of the 70-floor building. Yet Sarnoff seems to be playing the merger game, a favorite pastime of new-breed executives, with an eye more for posterity than for the present. He dismisses St. Regis' problems as the result...
...Revolt. On the top spiral at the Guggenheim are displayed the eminents who died in the 1960s but whose work still seems relevant to the post-meta physical moment: the dadaist abstractionist Arp Giacometti's existential armature figures, the dynamic welded sculpture of David Smith, and the work of Burgoyne Diller, a precursor of minimalism. Next are the old masters whose common sensibility was formulated before World War II: Picasso, Nevelson, Lipchitz, Calder. Then come two generations of artists who, in Fry's opinion, are at once trying to escape from Renaissance definitions of sculpture and "in revolt...
Architect Gordon Bunshaft and his wife Nina began collecting in the early '50s. They have only four treasured works displayed on the rustic grounds of their summer place on Long Island, but each one gains a new dimension be side the woods and water. Indeed, Giacometti's worn but stately woman seems plainly made to stroll among the maples in the moonlight. Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, widow of the Milwaukee indus trialist, missed Gerhard Marcks's Bremen Town Musicians so much after she lent it to the Milwaukee Art Center that she took it back again, keeps...