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...York Dealer Sidney Janis, 70, a Buffalo-born former shirt manufacturer who began collecting contemporary art in the late '20s, opened his quick-stepping, publicity-prone Manhattan gallery in 1948. The collection, valued at upwards of $2,000,000, has everything from Picasso and a $50,000 Mondrian, which Janis bought from the artist in the '30s for $70, to sculptures of Janis himself by Pop Dollmaker Marisol and Plaster-Caster George Segal...
...machinist's son, young Julio entered the Buenos Aires Academy of Fine Arts at 15, evolved from naturalistic painter into op artist under the influence of the works of Klee, Mondrian and Vasarely. He emigrated to Paris in 1958 and two years later, with a handful of other young Parisian artists, formed the highly experimental Groupe de Recherche dArt Visuel. One of the group's "researches" consisted of passing out Le Fare's cheating cheaters, along with chairs and shoes set on kangaroo springs, to passers-by on the St. Germain and Montparnasse boulevards...
...effect is that of making Mondrian's Boogie-Woogie paintings swing. Agam calls his works "contrapuntals," has even named one Homage to Johann Sebastian Bach for its fugue of color. He uses this oblique approach, he says, to avoid the Judaic religious restrictions on graven images. "In flux, one cannot perceive reality, but only a part of it," he says. As a result, his works may not stand alone impressively enough as masterpieces, but they seem a magnificently practical way to transform blank-walled, vast public wastelands and enormous rooms into lively and provocative architectural gardens...
...round-shouldered girl; unless she keeps chest out and shoulders back, she may be left with nothing but a snorkel above the waist. As for the navel, Blass has taken inspiration from Mondrian to produce a white bikini banded in black and joined top to bottom by a single black band that covers the navel yet somehow makes the stomach seem even barer...
...have two or three others," murmured French Fashion Prince Yves St. Laurent, 29, "but I just like that one. It's been to 30 or 40 parties on this trip." After all those parties, Yves wanted to visit the Museum of Modern Art. "I want to see Mondrian, the father of my dresses," he sighed to Yvonne de Peyerimhoff, the director of his Paris salon. "A sentimental trip." Some people thought he might also make a trip to the barber before returning to France. "Oh, it's short now," Yves explained, smoothing his beatled locks. "Usually I wear...