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Quick to admit that his collection is far from comprehensive, Billy plans to augment it with new purchases. He has his eye on works by Picasso, Arp, Moore, Lehmbruck and Brancusi. Last week he announced another collector's gift of Chaim Gross's The Performers, said he would "adore to get more contributions." He concedes that he will miss his host of silent, carved and cast friends. But at 60, Billy is thinking of posterity and has no regrets. Says he: "What was I going to do with these two-ton knickknacks-leave them to my sister Polly...
...events at Harvard, is the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg, on view at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. There are some excellent works in the collection: Picasso's famous Blue Boy, some fine drawings by Cezanne, Millet and Seymour Reminick, and some first rate sculpture by Lehmbruck, Matisse, Lachaise, Epstein and, of all people, Paul Gauguin. These works alone are worthy of a trip to the Busch's isolated headquarters on Kirkland and Divinity Avenues. Generally, however, the rather uneven quality of the exhibition tends to ensure a quick run-through of the works which merit attention...
...number of sculptures which happen to accompany the Picasso at the Museum of Fine Arts make an interesting comparison. There is a Lehmbruck which is rather more elegant, more refined. There is a Brancusi fish which is more restrained. But there is also a Calder stabile which pursues much the same goals as the Picasso--a forceful statement of dramatic black shapes--and next to it the Picasso looks far more complete, more resolved, more dignified...
Nowhere does an expansiveness of spirit succeed better than in the realm of sculpture, to wit that of George Kolbe and especially of Wilhelm Lehmbruck. The latter transforms his message to drawing with the same permanence and surety he exhibits in stone, and in expressionism or any other art, permanence is what ultimately counts...
Pictures by Barlach and Lehmbruck carry on the feeling of loneliness and pain that characterize this period...