Word: nadelmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York museums are now as bent on resurrecting lost reputations as, a decade ago, they were on promoting new ones. A revisionist ecstasy is in the air, and one of the more important artists to benefit from it (if posthumously) is Sculptor Elie Nadelman. A definitive retrospective of some 150 sculptures and drawings opened last week at the Whitney Museum, organized by Art Historian John Baur, director of the Whitney until his retirement last year...
...When Nadelman died in New York in 1946, his name vanished as suddenly as a stone into a well; and yet, for the first 50 years of his life, he had been the epitome of worldly-and, to an extent, aesthetic-success. Born in 1882 into a cultivated family of Warsaw Jews, Nadelman settled in Paris and moved with ease and originality through the circle that included Picasso, Apollinaire and the Steins; his early work from 1906 to 1907 is known to have influenced Picasso's own sculpture, and Nadelman's place among the progenitors of Cubism...
Elegant and worldly, with the profile of a melancholy hawk, Nadelman was adored by rich women and duly married a millionairess; he acquired a Manhattan house and a splendid estate on the Hudson. In five years (between 1923 and 1928) the Nadelmans spent more than half a million dollars buying American folk art and were the first systematic collectors...