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...photograph of Irving on the cover comes from an unusual source: his wife Shyla, a freelance photographer whose work has appeared on book jackets and in galleries and national magazines. Back in 1939, TIME's cover photo of Pablo Picasso was taken by the artist's longtime mistress Dora Maar, and a 1963 cover portrait of Andrew Wyeth was painted by Wyeth's sister Henriette, but Mrs. Irving may well be the first spouse ever to provide the cover photograph of a TIME cover subject. Says she: "I'm delighted. When I took the picture...
...collectibles market is now likely to be very unpredictable for investors. As expected, Sotheby's sale last spring of one of Pablo Picasso's self-portraits went for $5.3 million, the highest sum ever paid at auction for one of his paintings. But during that same week, Christie's received only half of the $20 million expected from one of its auctions. Among the unsold works: a still life by Picasso reportedly done...
Oppenheimer and his wife Bridget live in a style befitting their wealth. Home is a colonial mansion surrounded by formal gardens in a northern suburb of Johannesburg. Decorations include paintings by Chagall, Goya, Renoir and Picasso, and bookshelves are lined with first editions of Lord Byron and other poets. Oppenheimer owns a stud farm where he raises prize race horses, and a 900-acre game preserve in eastern Transvaal...
...some way he seems such a modern artist. There is, to begin with, the relentless autophagy: the cannibalizing, part by part, of his own images in numerous variations, a self-reflexive mode of invention that one associates more with Picasso than anyone earlier. This point is brought home dramatically by the gallery of motifs from The Gates of Hell, from The Thinker itself (originally meant to be the central figure over the doorway, a Dante dreaming the whole Inferno) to the battalion of flying, crouching, writhing figures, bare forked animals all, that crowd the plinths...
Whether this point is worth making over and over again, at such length and great expense to collectors, seems moot-though not to Cowart, who detects in Lichtenstein's ability to apply his method an almost Picasso-like energy. "Tomorrow he could take Renaissance, Classical or other known subjects or, on the other hand, quickly invent a new vocabulary of images," Cowart writes in the catalogue. Perhaps, but would it matter? What one misses in a large proportion of the work on view in St. Louis is, simply, the sense of necessity-an engagement deeper than style...