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...four painters who created the language of cubism in the early teens of this century-Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger-the first to die was also the youngest: Gris. His real name was José Gonzálèz, and he was the 13th child of a polyphiloprogenitive Madrid businessman. After a brief apprenticeship as a comic illustrator in Spain, Gris got to Paris in 1906 and installed himself as Picasso's neighbor in the now legendary Bâteau-Lavoir, a ramshackle cluster of studios in Montmartre. He painted nothing...
...output small, his conduct resolutely inconspicuous, Gris has long been the least-known major French artist of the 20th century, and the claws of myth have never got a hold on the cool, highly wrought, intellectually guarded surface of his art. Nor, until now, has his adopted country honored his mem ory with an official show. The gap has at last been filled by a compendious Gris retro spective at the Orangerie in Paris (through July 1), organized by France's Chief Curator of Museums Jean Leymarie...
Still-Life Sea. The first thing to note about Gris is the acuteness of his limitations. There are some artists who can do virtually anything, Picasso being their modern archetype. There are others who seem able to master only one thing; and of these petits-maîtres, Gris is the exemplar...
...reckoning, Joan Miró is probably the greatest living painter, at least of the generation that produced Picasso, Matisse, Gris and Dali. Amidst these driven men, Miró was always the elf, an antic poet who took Surrealism and made it gay, an irreverent abstractionist who planted sexual symbols in wide fields of indeterminate space. He is already so enshrined in art history that it is easy to assume that he is dead. But Miró is alive, and at 80 has taken off in a new creative direction...
Died. Jacques Lipchitz, 81, one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century; of a heart attack; in Capri. From his native Lithuania, Lipchitz immigrated to France at 18 and became the youngest member in a group of cubist artists that included Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and Georges Braque. Working in stone and bronze, Lipchitz simplified human figures into multiplaned, crystal-like abstractions. During the '20s, he began to reverse the process and "from a crystal build a man, a woman, a child." His ideal became Rodin rather than Picasso, his work more monumental, his themes heroic. During World...