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These pictures are small, seldom larger than 10" square; Schuster will show Morse's larger paintings in May. They are part of the tradition of abstract expressionism and recall Conrad Marca-Relli and Franz Kline to an extent. But they are quite individually conceived and well put together (the frame and backing were done by the artist herself). Some of them tend to be a little "soft," where she uses blue and green cloth cut into small shapes. Her paper collages are most successful; they are black and white, with a little red occasionally, and their line varies between that...
...still the center of the avantgarde. Brought up as a poor Hell's Kitchen kid, he recalls selling his early drawings to the sisters at parochial school when he was eleven. His later friends were abstract expressionists of a generation older than pop: Kline, De Kooning and Marca-Relli. Pepperonis & Provolones. In his 30s and 40s Agostini began making commercial sculpture. He made plaster mannequins for a fashionable Manhattan women's store. This led him to sculpt pseudo-delicatessenry for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. He molded polyester salamis, pepperonis and meat loaves-stuff that by some...
...tender nudes from life, works in a former stable in the old whaling town of Sag Harbor, and putts around in his Model T and 1935 Rolls-Royce. Realists such as Fairfield Porter, Paul Georges and Moses Soyer live within a short drive of Abstractionists Ludwig Sander, Corrado Marca-Relli and James Brooks. Even New Yorker Cartoonists Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg find the region warmly inclusive...
...were lower than dealers hoped. A Milton Resnick abstraction brought only $550. A 1948 semiabstract De Kooning brought $9,000. Abstract expressionists won no enthusiasm. A huge Mathieu went for a paltry $5,250. Hartigan hit $3,000 but had a low of $700; Okada hit $2,000, Marca-Relli $3,000. The real surprise of the evening was a quiet, 1952 still life of ceramic ware, plain as a cupboard and less abstract than a Cezanne, by 73-year-old Giorgio Morandi. Winning...
...NEIL WELLIVER, 34, who teaches architectural drawing at Yale, had such divergent mentors as the old Bauhaus sage Josef Albers and Abstract Collagist Corrado Marca-Relli. He synthesizes the former's color sense with the latter's pancake flatness...