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...evicted from his Village apartment and his meager possessions, horns and all, were tossed out on the street and removed by the Department of Sanitation. He slept in a friend's pottery studio by night, roamed art museums by day ("I feel a rapport with Jackson Pollock," he says). Last year he got by on $500. Living in one room cluttered with stacks of tape and three tape recorders, he worked on a book explaining his music and practiced on the violin-a $15 pawnshop bargain -"until somebody started knocking on the walls...
Last Duchess. Perhaps Peggy's finest moment came during her World War II years in Manhattan, when she opened her now famous "Art of This Century" gallery. There she gave one-man shows to a group of such young unknowns as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, thus foster-mothering the generation that was to make the U.S. a world art power. "Abstract expression began in my gallery," she says. "You couldn't explain it. It was like a sudden burst of flame." Peggy fed the fire as long as she could resist...
...most art experts, her Italian contemporaries pale beside her earlier purchases. Peggy does not agree. "People in 20 years will be saying the same things about the new people as they were about Pollock back then," she says. Pop? "This whaddayacallit, phooey," she says, but Jasper Johns...
...JAMES POLLOCK Calumet, Mich...
...Jackson Pollock used synthetic Duco lacquers in the late '40s and early '50s. One of the first celebrated artists to rely wholly on synthetics was Holland's Hans van Meegeren, who used them to paint equally synthetic Vermeers in the 1930s. Since new oil paint can be distinguished from old in a simple laboratory test, the forger used a heat-setting resin to avoid detection...