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GALLERY OF MODERN ART-Columbus Circle at 59th. A retrospective of the German impressionist, Lovis Corinth, who won artistic fame before his death in 1925. Banned by the Nazis, his work for many years remained obscure in this country (TIME, Sept. 25). Corinth painted hundreds of self-portraits that represent his most powerful work. Through...
...significant imitators. One reason for the dearth of painters has been the traditional conservatism of British critics and collectors. Even after 49 years as a pillar of the Royal Academy, the great Joseph Turner was so fearful of critical scorn that he never risked exhibiting his last, prophetically impressionist, paintings. "For years, the English art scene drove me mad with tedium," says Bryan Robertson, director of London's prestigious, avant-garde Whitechapel Gallery. "Nobody cared. It was a real problem just finding people who were worth a show...
Returning to Germany, Corinth scandalized Munich with his sensual image ry. He painted slaughterhouse scenes, leering nymphs and popeyed Grafs with equal candor and caricature. He happily moved to Berlin to join the impressionist Secessionists, an art society that scorned the academy. Then in 1911, a near-fatal stroke reminded him of the dark side of delight...
...poster art would not have made art history if it had not been for a rebellious group of impressionist painters who wanted to get more light and air into their work and to reach a larger public. With painters such as Manet, Bonnard, Villon, Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen and Forain doing the ad-cum-art work, the posters rapidly became collectors' items and more valuable than the products advertised...
Died. Giorgio Morandi, 73, Italian painter following the 19th century impressionist style, a self-effacing recluse who spent his days composing serene, Cézanne-like still lifes of bottles, vases and flowers, which brought as much as $10,000 on the open market but which he usually sold to dealers for less than $200 because "I would consider it an immoral exploitation if I accepted such sums"; after a long illness; in Bologna...