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Last week, in the first big retrospective show of Bloom's work ever held, there was plenty to look at besides painted corpses. Visitors at Boris Mirski's Boston gallery could see encrusted oils of blazing chandeliers, Christmas trees ribboned with light, melancholy rabbis and bold abstractions that have contributed to Bostonian Bloom's slowly growing reputation. Nonetheless, the five most discussed paintings in the show seemed to come straight from charnel house and morgue...
...Institute of Modern Art, a non-profit organization, with galleries on Newbury Street, maintains no permanent collection but has frequent showings of distinguished contemporary painting. It is, at present, holding its Tenth Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, including major works by Picasso, Matisse, Roualt, Henri Rousseau, Klee, Marin, and Siqueiros. Boris Mirski's Gallery, also on Newbury Street, shows mainly Mexican and Boston moderns. The current show comprises paintings by pupils and admirers of Karl Zerbe, the celebrated and versatile Boston romantic. Mirski's also sells original paintings and prints by local artists, and maintains a large collection of Persian and Indian...
...roly-poly picture framer named Boris Mirski came to Boston from Lithuania. Ever since, while framing New England portraits and brown landscapes for the residents of staid Beacon Hill, he made modern art-a much less salable commodity in Boston-his side line. This week, in a redbrick, 78-year-old Back Bay mansion, right next door to the stuffy Guild of Boston Artists on swank Newbury Street, he opened an art gallery with an exhibition of 53 paintings by a Guatemalan Indian, Carlos Mérida...