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Modernists will make a beeline for the Maeght Foundation in sunny St.-Paul-de-Vence, with its celebrated abundance of Picassos, Chagalls and Mirós, then move on to the Musée Fernand Léger in Biot and the Picasso museum in the Château Grimaldi in Antibes. And for some 30,000 lovers of ironwork-from forthright masculine forging to lacy feminine filigree, from the Roman keys to the needlepoint balustrade that graced Mme. de Pompadour's country mansion-there is Rouen's Musée Le Secq des Tournelles...
...blatantly repellent subject matter: slabs of bloody beef, shrieking popes, and men performing vague erotic gymnastics. In his recent paintings, he has focused on portraiture. In a frenzy since the beginning of the year, he has painted 30, half of which go on view in Paris' Galerie Maeght this week. The rest the artist cut to bits too small to reach the open market via his trash basket...
There were jittery calligraphs, concentric circles, anxious labyrinths and hysterical lines, not to mention stickpin Indians, Uncle Sam sphinxes, and cats and dogs and question marks, all up on the wall. As Frenchmen filed through Paris' Galerie Maeght last week rubbernecking, chuckling and occasionally snorting, the scene seemed readymade for a Saul Steinberg cartoon. As a matter of fact, Steinberg probably will make a cartoon of it-it's his show...
Explosive Encounters. In inaugurating the Maeght museum, France's Minister of Culture André Malraux predicted: "When in a million years men stop by at this place, they will surely say, 'Something undoubtedly happened here which had to do with the spirit.'" Maeght hopes to make Malraux's prophecy come true. "From the very first sketch drawn, from the first stone laid," he says, "what came before all else was the spiritual climate to be created, not something dead where relics are kept, but a center of intellectual life away from the trite problems of daily...
...make the museum a center for young artists, Maeght had a cluster of cottages erected, complete with music rooms, studios, servants' quarters and a fine French chef. Given a trial run last December by a trio of Americans, the project proved a great success. One, Painter Ellsworth Kelly, so responded to the luxuriant Riviera landscape that his style underwent a major transformation. Maeght eagerly awaits his next group of artists-in-residence in September: "I hope to produce explosive encounters by putting them in contact...