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"I do not collect," said Washington's Gwen Cafritz. She meant paintings, since she was a guest, not a hostess, at the Manhattan society opening of 32 landscapes and still lifes by French Artist Bernard Buffet, 36. The gallery was filled with art inexperts. "Buffet paints a variety of...
Died. Giorgio Morandi, 73, Italian painter following the 19th century impressionist style, a self-effacing recluse who spent his days composing serene, Cézanne-like still lifes of bottles, vases and flowers, which brought as much as $10,000 on the open market but which he usually sold to...
French impressionism. Yet, except for Lenin Prizewinner Aleksandr Deineka's husky peasant girls, which Estorick probably bought for diplomatic reasons, the show is not a dismal display of the Russian Tractor Style. Instead, the rest of the exhibition is heavy with still lifes and landscapes, competent, vaguely Western, strangely...
One is Anatoly Nikitch, 46, who will show at the Venice Biennale this season. His seven still lifes are perfectly balanced compositions and painters' paintings; in one, provocatively, a postcard by France's Bernard Buffet is visible stuck to a background wall. Pavel Nikonov's somber Still...
Thiebaud, 43, won notoriety in the first flush of Pop art because he painted still lifes of cakes, pies and other frosted delights. Although he was as much concerned with Russian icons ("I see myself as a very conservative artist connected with tradition"), he rapidly became known as the laureate...