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...greatest tapestries were on special exhibition last week at France's Mobilier National (the government department in charge of all official furnishings). The exhibits range in style from the elaborate allegories of Gobelins' first director, Charles Le Brun, to the joyful abstractions of the Spanish painter Joan Miro (see color page...
...others: Castro, Jan. 26, 1959; Che Guevara, Aug. 8, 1960; Exile Leader Jose Miro Cardona, April 28, 1961; and Communist Boss Bias Roca, April...
...must look equally reptilian." His fangs proved golden. An Arp marble brought $26,000, more than treble its previous high in a major auction house. Equally, two Calder mobiles went for $9,000 and $10,000 (v. $2,400). Miro fetched $57,500 (v. $30,000). Even a newcomer like Robert Rauschenberg garnered a record $15,000 for his 1956 Gloria. In all, the collection brought $510,000, making the total for the evening $2,855,000. "This is a record for a sale of modern art in the Western hemisphere," proudly announced Parke-Bernet. "It was a Roman orgy...
...graphics as another kind of drawing, but the pure lines contrasting with hard planes of his late linoleum cuts bring out his simplification of nature in a sharper manner than his oils. Matisse found that his late, swimming arabesques could be better executed by stencils than by brush bristles. Miro learned that his love of texture was readily brought out by the relief in paper of etching. In Chagall's 13 editions on the Arabian Nights, he found that colors of lithography achieved a brazen Oriental romance that oils would have subdued with their filmy translucence...
...work called "Trading Ship" by Nielson Wright, who must be, one would guess, about eleven. He showed up his elders, who proved once again that realistic painting can never be truly realistic; nothing here recalled the sometime holiday mood of the riverbank as well as a Miro abstraction might have...