Word: maillol
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...Expo-goers is one of gigantic exhibition structures, lofty space domes and minirails. But as visitors are discovering in increasing numbers as the summer wears on, the 1,000-acre site is also studded with dozens of delightful surprises in the form of 20th century sculpture, ranging from Aristide Maillol's 1908 Desire to a 1967 blue, geometric Dyad by Saskatchewan's Robert Murray. And while most of the Expo sculpture executed in the 1960s would not raise an eyebrow at Venice or in a far-out Manhattan gallery, it is provoking plenty of conversation in Montreal, where...
With André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, adoration of art knows no bounds. He has put Marc Chagall's lovers on the ceiling of the Paris Opéra, Maillol bronzes in the Tuileries gardens, Masson's abstracts in the dome of the Comédie Française. He has washed the face of Paris from a dingy grey to honey-colored sandstone, and his art history, Voices of Silence, was a monument to a world he saw as "a museum without walls...
...books taken was a $35 collection of Greek vase painting: the other was a $25 edition of Maillol...
...Near by are five acres of contoured gardens, designed by Isamu Noguchi, containing sculptures given by Showman Billy Rose. Called the Billy Rose Art Garden (the word for sculpture-pesel-means a forbidden graven image), its terraces bank abstract works from Henry Moore to Tinguely, representational sculptures from Maillol to Rodin. The nudes not the abstractions forced two of Israel's chief rabbis to snub the inauguration...
...sidewalk was a pure Billy Rose spectacle. While cops hovered before the curved Georgian facade of his Manhattan town house, showmanship's shortest (5 ft. 3 in.) giant lounged in the cavity of Henry Moore's Reclining Figure, surrounded by Reg Butler's Woman Stretching, Maillol's Chained Liberty, Rodin's nude Adam and Archipenko's cubistic Woman Combing Hair. While Billy watched, twelve white-coated movers lifted the sculpture into vans. In all, there were 105 pieces conservatively worth $1,000,000, and they were off on their final journey to Jerusalem...