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...Rochlin's spontaneity. Deborah Ellis' pen sketch of a paunchy man (first prize in the graphics division) is pleasant and even humorous but occasionally rather unsure of anatomical detail. Among other drawings worth noting is a nude, "I' Arlesienne," by Adrianne Aldrich '62. Miss Aldrich, who knows her Toulouse-Lautrec almost overly well, does a fine job of capturing the feline quality of her subject...
Still stunned by the recent wave of art thefts, the galleries of Europe are wiring themselves for sound. Last week an exhibition opened in Munich of 400 works by Toulouse-Lautrec. If a thief so much as touches one. an alarm will go off. London's National Gallery and Tate Gallery are considering placing their pictures in a new kind of mat-a thin layer of foam rubber sandwiched between two foil sheets that are wired to the wall. It will do a thief no good to cut the wires, for the alarm will go off anyway. Price...
...painted by Norwegian Artist Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk), who, although a founder of the expressionist school of painting, has only lately begun to gain some of the fame of his turn-of-the-century contemporaries, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. Considered a madman much of his life, the anguished and neurotic Munch was the son of a military surgeon who became a religious fanatic later in life and of a mother who died of tuberculosis when the boy was five. "I always felt," recalled Munch, "that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick and threatened with punishment...
Sometimes he painted her in the style of his Blue Period, other times rather in the mode of Toulouse-Lautrec. By 1918 Picasso and Fernande had parted, and that year he married the dancer Olga Koklova, by whom he had his son Paolo...
Behind the Wall. In time Barnes assembled the world's greatest collection of Matisses, the largest group of Cezannes outside the Louvre, and over $50 million worth of art by Picasso, Braque, Gauguin, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe and Ben Shahn. When his collection outgrew his home and factory, Barnes built a marble temple to house it in suburban Merion, surrounded the place with ferocious police dogs and a ten-foot "spite wall." Ostensibly the collection was a public institution, entitled to tax exemption, but the tiny part of the public that...