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...Jean Arp that looks like a fractured ham bone, a carved wood Reclining Figure by Britain's Henry Moore, all lumps and holes, with tiny breasts and huge, finlike legs. There were slim bronze stringbeans for human figures in City Square by Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti, wrought iron spikes and loops for a Woman Combing Her Hair by Spain's Julio Gonzalez, tinkling wire tendrils for a Streetcar by U.S. Mobilist Alexander Calder...
...food and drink." Nights, he went to the galleries, and there he found what he wanted to do. He liked such old French masters as the 17th century's Nicolas Poussin, the 19th century's Eugene Delacroix, such moderns as Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti (TIME, July 2, 1951) and Britain's Francis Bacon. The much-admired decorative style of the Matisses is not for Paddy Swift. "Art," he thinks, "is obviously capable of expressing something more closely related to life than these elegant designs." His main idea is to suggest the tensions he finds in life...
Next to Roth himself, his biggest fans are his subjects. Most of them-Picasso, Utrillo, Giacometti, Cocteau, Dufy, Leger, Milhaud-gave Roth nearly all the time he needed to make his pictures. The result: his portraits have a quality that seems to capture a sense of his subjects' work as well as their personalities...
...peak of his art. Every sculptor who could afford his stiff prices ($9,000 nowadays for a life-size figure) sent his work to Rudier. Maillol, Renoir, Bourdelle were all his clients; Rodin would have no other caster. Today, such outstanding European moderns as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti and Ossip Zadkine are on his list. An expert explains why: "Rudier is unique. He is an artist. He produces a grain and patina almost like human skin. The bronze seems alive...
...Rockefeller III can afford to experiment, since she keeps her modern art purchases in a guest house. The boldest of collectors, she is also the most reticent, and springs from rather than to the defense of her choices. Along with distinguished sculptures by such European moderns as Brancusi, Giacometti, Lipschitz and Marini, she buys the smear-technique abstractions of such avant-garde Manhattanites as Baziotes, Motherwell, Rothko and Tomlin. Her hand-dribbled Jackson Pollock (see cut) is appropriately small...