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...enterprising local representation. The Institute of Modern Art, a non-profit organization, with galleries on Newbury Street, maintains no permanent collection but has frequent showings of distinguished contemporary painting. It is, at present, holding its Tenth Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, including major works by Picasso, Matisse, Roualt, Henri Rousseau, Klee, Marin, and Siqueiros. Boris Mirski's Gallery, also on Newbury Street, shows mainly Mexican and Boston moderns. The current show comprises paintings by pupils and admirers of Karl Zerbe, the celebrated and versatile Boston romantic. Mirski's also sells original paintings and prints by local artists, and maintains a large collection...
Prizewinner Knaths, 54, was apprenticed to a baker at 19. He used discarded box linings for drawing paper, contrived hundreds of escapes from the steaming bakery into a world of his own making. As an art student, Knaths learned a new escape trick: Pablo Picasso and Swiss fantasist Paul Klee taught him how to tear down what he saw and rebuild it to suit himself...
...Klee, wanting to paint like children, knew that children paint not to make beautiful pictures, but simply for the fun of picturing what they feel-art-for-my-sake. For grownups who have little childhood left in them, Klee's work, like children's, is something pretty hard to understand...
Last week an exhibition of Klee's calculated naivetés opened in London's Tate Gallery. In Manhattan, a new portfolio appeared (The Prints of Paul Klee; Curt Valentin, $15). Its 40 etchings and lithographs proved 40 times over that Klee, no matter how hard he tried, was no child. Some of the pictures had the bright, immediate privacy of peep shows, some were suffused with an insane glee; but all showed a controlled hand whose simplicity was as artful as a Hans Andersen fairy tale...
...When Klee died near Locarno, in 1940, some oldsters remembered the little boy who used to see faces in the veins of his grandfather's marble-top table. His students remembered how he used to lecture at Germany's famed Bauhaus, sitting hunched over, with his back to the class. His friends remembered him stumbling silently along a beach, staring at the convolutions of a sea shell in his fist...