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...EDUCATED EYE-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. Paintings and sculptures from the private collections of alumni and parents of the Dalton School, lent to benefit the alma mater. They include Cezanne's Under the Trees, Klee's Landscape with Signs, Picasso's witty Nude and Woman Washing her Feet, Hofmann's The Conjurer (a painter mid his pots), Calder's 1963 mobile, Yellow Flower. Through...
Automobile carburetors have little in common with the visionary paintings of Paul Klee, but Arnold Maremont is a devoted connoisseur of both. Mare mont, 59, is president of Chicago's Maremont Corp., a leader in the greasy, $7 billion business of making spare parts for old cars. Yet he runs his firm from a low ebony coffee-table desk, surrounded by modern paintings and chairs by Mies van der Rohe, is as elegant and impeccably dressed as if he were managing Tiffany's. All this seems to help: he has built Maremont's sales from $30 million...
...famed Alte Pinakothek, with its splendid collections of DÜrer, Rembrandt, Raphael, Titian and Rubens. Munich claims to be the birthplace of modern art, and indeed its Blaue Reiter group pioneered in the abstract movement; Munich's galleries today are loaded with the works of Kandinsky and Klee. Schwabing, the city's bohemian quarter, which won its reputation thanks to Kandinsky & Co., is still an art center, with more than 2,000 painters and sculptors at work...
While the exhibition does not pretend to be a comprehensive survey of Surrealist and Fantastic art, virtually every important Surrealist artist is included. Arp, Chagall, de Chirico, Dali, Ernst, Klee, and Miro are each represented by a number of paintings; several of these works are well-known and most are characteristic of each artist's particular development...
...five paintings by Paul Klee effectively span his career. "Runner at the Goal" (1921) and "Red Baloon" (1922) are the whimsical and delightful products of the early Klee, who was experimenting with color and geometric form. "The Revolution of the Viaduct" (1937)--one of the highpoints of the show--and "Severing of the Snake" (1938), are as cleverly executed but contain overtones of the seriousness which pervaded his work in the trying years before his death...