Word: picassos
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What sounds like an excellent exhibition of modern masters is continuing, through February 9, at the Pucker/Safrai gallery at 171 Newbury Street. Works shown include linocuts, engravings and lithographs by Picasso; drawings of the human face and figure in ink, lithograph and charcoal by Matiss; and silk screen prints of Hundertwasser's Japanese woodcuts. There are also some lithographs by Chagall. A film, "Hundertwasser's Rainy Day," will be shown periodically in the course of the exhibit (Monday-Friday...
Died. Elmyr de Hory, 65, master art forger; by his own hand (sleeping-pill overdose); on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Hungarian-born De Hory painted under his own name until 1946, when he sold a small "Picasso" that he had executed. With the aid of a skillful fence, he turned his mimicry of Matisse, Modigliani and others into millions of dollars until his cover was blown in 1967. The dapper De Hory was the subject of Fake!, a 1969 biography by his friend Clifford Irving−no mean hoaxer himself−and a movie by Orson Welles. In recent...
...ILLUSTRATED CAT by Jean-Claude Suarès and Seymour Chwast. 72 pages. Harmony Books/Crown. $10.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback. A fetching concatenation of feline portraits done by celebrated painters, illustrators and cartoonists from Watteau, Manet, Renoir and Picasso to Andrew Wyeth, from Tenniel to Thurber, from Chessie in the C & O berth to Krazy Kat beset by Ignatz Mouse. The text is too kittenish, even for ailurophiles, but the pictures are, well, magnificat...
Died. Emiliano Augusto di Cavalcanti, 79, Brazil's premier painter; following surgery; in Rio de Janeiro. Cavalcanti (known simply as "Di") rejected the military career planned for him in favor of a bohemian life. During the 1920s and '30s, he worked in Paris along with Picasso, Braque and Matisse, then returned to Brazil to paint bright, bold, cubist landscapes and sensuous mulatto women whose skin, he said, "is silk and reflects...
...artist was sitting in his tub enjoying a bath, recalls David Douglas Duncan, describing his first encounter with Pablo Picasso 20 years ago. Painter and photographer hit it off, and in the years that followed Duncan clicked off some 50,000 photos of the master and his work, and produced three volumes of Pi-cassiana. In celebration of Picasso's 95th birthday on Oct. 25, Duncan has now produced a fourth, titled The Silent Studio (Norton), which focuses on Picasso's art-filled French Riviera villa and on Jacqueline, his wife for a dozen years before his death...