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When Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Dec. 28) has painted portraits in the past, the results have rarely been recognizable as human beings. But last week his first portrait show at Manhattan's Knoedler galleries proved that Dali, when confronted by society ladies, can make faces look as vapidly human as any other slick artist can. Garnished with the carefully strange surrealist fantasy which Salvador Dali affects, some of his canvases could pass for society magazine covers...
...Toledo and John Singer Sargent's portrait of Padre Sebastiano. Mrs. George Bellows lent her husband's famous picture of Edith Cavell. The Whitney Museum, the Phillips Memorial in Washington, the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, all removed priceless works from their walls to send to Knoedler's in Manhattan, because an art critic liked them...
...Thus Knoedler's (celebrating its 95th birthday) last week celebrated Royal Cortissoz' 50th anniversary as an art critic (for the New York Herald Tribune) with an exhibition of the pictures the twinkling old gentleman liked best in the whole...
...enjoy the war much. Two months before it was over he left for Paris and Brussels, drifted later to the U.S. Exiled and running low on funds in Manhattan, Souto was lucky enough to get friends to stake him to last week's exhibition expenses, persuaded Knoedler's swank 57th Street Gallery to hang his pictures on speculation. By week's end neither his friends nor Knoedler's were disappointed. In the first five days of the exhibition Arturo Souto, had sold twelve paintings, (at $75 to $500), one of them to Frank Jewett Mather...
...been born on the island of Crete exactly 400 years ago. His name: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, nicknamed El Greco ("The Greek"). His aid to embattled Greece: a one-man show (the first and finest in the U. S. in many years) of 18 of his paintings at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries, the proceeds to go to the Greek War Relief Association. The fanatic fire of his ghostlike saints and flame-licked madonnas made many a gallerygoer stop, look, and look again...