Word: picabia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...display. Two abstract works by the Russian Serge Poliakoff, big blocks of carefully modelled color, can be seen on entering the exhibit, near a very subtle work in cement--"In the Shadow of a Field"--by ex-conservationist Raoul Ubac, while the plastic, organic cubism of an early Picabia is across the hall...
Last week it was the old masters who stole the show-Yves Tanguy with his unearthly landscapes, Francis Picabia with a grotesque pair of spiky-chinned lovers, the German Richard Oelze with buildings and people that look as if they had been submerged in water for years. There were wooden moons and seas by Max Ernst, a geometric Anthony and Cleopatra by Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg...