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...impeccable and wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid nag, understandably hanging its head in a canvas as dark and narrow as a hall closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The State of Painting | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Forty-year-old Marchand had had a young girl friend and model whose classic head and swan neck he turned into Picassoid portraits-hammered, twisted, bilious. Then one day-so said Parisian rumor-Picasso had taken Marchand's girl for himself, and put her beauty in a classically simple and straightforward etching (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Woods | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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