Word: klees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Stein, 35, is a highly skilled British forger of post-impressionist paintings. After a London gallery exhibited his fakes-billing the show as "Master Forger David Stein Presents Braque, Klee, Miró, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso"-a Manhattan gallery eagerly tried to follow suit. New York State's attorney general took the gallery to court, contending that the paintings would be a public nuisance. But New York Supreme Court Justice Arnold Fein sided with Stein and the gallery. Since Stein signed his name to the paintings and gave fair notice that the works were "in the style...
...gathering works of the highest quality from civilizations separated by centuries and continents the Museum destroys the sense of chronological time. They seem to have been created outside of any time sequence, created by single minds confronted with a mass of material. Each piece, whether it be by Paul Klee or by an artist from the Roman Empire, when mixed with this group abandons its specific place and date in history. Exhibited together as examples of the world's art all artists are placed on the same footing. Though few of the artists speak the same language, or comprehend each...