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...says Painter-Sculptor Max Ernst. Ernst himself has been playing all his life, and the result is some of the most imaginative and ingenious work done in this century. Very early he began his "excursions in the world of marvels, chimeras, phantoms, poets, monsters, philo. ">phers, birds, women, lunatics, magi, trees, eroticism, stones, insects, mountains, poisons, mathematics and so forth." As could be seen at his big (240 works) retrospective exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week (see color}, the excursions have been strange and even a bit scary, but the man who took them...
...probable that there is very little history in the second chapter of Matthew. Except as a pious enlargement intended to show the manifestation of Christ to the gentile world, few historical details mentioned in Matthew 2 (including the existence of the Magi) are to be considered credible...
...Accompanied by a superb Robert Russell Bennett score, detail follows detail from the works of the masters-the pale, thin-lipped face of the Virgin in Rogier van der Weyden's Annunciation, fearful tears in the aged eyes of a Jordaens shepherd, Massys' open-mouthed Magi. Skillfully but not trickily panning across the pictures from face to face, scene to scene, Producer-Director Donald Hyatt achieves a unique sense of motion and drama. Gradually, the life of Christ (to the Sermon on the Mount) is told more effectively than it ever could be from a pulpit...
Until last week, the best-kept secret in the art auction world was: Who put up the record $770,000 to buy Rubens' Adoration of the Magi through London Dealer Leonard Koetser (TIME, July 6)? The Daily Express offered $1,500 for any clue, after nine months got the tip-off from one of Koetser's former employees...
...R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Salmond), had offered it on the open market it would have brought well over $1,000,000, easily topping the $616,000 sale of Cezanne's Boy in Red Vest and the record $770,000 recently paid for Rubens' Adoration of the Magi. But few Englishmen can afford such sums. Had the picture left the country, the government would have collected an enormous estate duty on it. Lady Sal-mond's private sale to the National Gallery was taxfree, and presumably more advantageous...