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...impressionist works from the Hermitage and Pushkin collections traveled to Holland's Kroller-Muller Museum. On April 2 a smaller version of that show with a few additions-41 paintings in all-opens at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., before going to New York's M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. in May. It is an event not only for the National Gallery but also for Knoedler's, whose chairman, Occidental Petroleum's Armand Hammer (TIME, Jan. 29) was instrumental in persuading the Soviet government to show these spectacular works...
Dali's latest attempt at a comeback is his current show at Knoedler's in Manhattan. It is a lugubrious event, more rummage sale than exhibition. Though it was not conceived as a retrospective, it spans about four decades of his output and so gives some sense of the appalling decline that his talent has suffered. To see some of Dali's best early work, like the tiny Specter of Sex Appeal (1934), is almost to confront a different painter: somewhere along the line that nightmarish distinctness and mystery of image, in which every speck of paint...
Eccentric Orbit. The New York shows include a total of 43 bronzes at the Marlborough Gallery and 17 stone carvings at M. Knoedler & Co., all done since 1961. Even the smallest pieces have authority. Helmet Head is only 18| in. high; yet it has the majesty of a public monument. "You can see in it the idea of protecting, of mother and child, I suppose," says Moore, "but it doesn't want you to know all about it. One could make a whole career out of this one form...
Despite their casualness, such preliminary sketches are beginning to be seen more and more in U.S. museums and galleries. In 1967, an exhibit of 79 oil sketches, organized by Columbia University's Rudolf Wittkower, made a brief but much applauded appearance at Manhattan's Knoedler's Galleries. Next week, a collection of 60 sketches assembled by the Salzburg Dealer-Scholar Kurt Rossacher goes on view in Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery, and will subsequently be seen in Toledo, Providence and Minneapolis...
Inner Freedom. The Rossacher collection, while lacking the variety and consistent excellence of the Knoedler's exhibit, offers a valuable look at what almost seems to be a contradiction in terms: intimate baroque painting. Virtually every sketch in the show depicts Biblical or mythological figures arranged in elaborate compositions, dramatized with sometimes exaggerated chiaroscuro and overwrought perspective. Yet if the viewer can accommodate himself to the baroque's love of allegory, he will find the oil sketches a delight...