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...career, Painter Alan Reynolds, 26, had good reason to be surprised. Even before the formal opening, all but two of his 26 abstract landscape oils had been sold to private previewers. The Arts Council's Sir Kenneth Clark snapped up one; the Tate Gallery's Sir John Rothenstein was almost too late, barely managed to get the picture he wanted. After a week, everything was sold, including all Reynolds' drawings and watercolors, and there was a waiting list of 40 eager patrons, including Actor John Gielgud, Leeds's City Art Gallery and Cambridge's Fitzwilliam...
Last week, with two months left to raise the money, Tate Director Sir John Rothenstein sadly reported that while scores of Britons had sent contributions, the total so far was only ?600. Sir John was planning one more appeal. Said he: "Rodin is perhaps the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo . . . This is the only Rodin marble in a public collection in England...
...Bless You, Sir." Said the Manchester Guardian: "Both the beauty of the drawings and the depth of the observation are expressed so quietly that the casual observer may easily overlook them." Said Sir John Rothenstein, director of London's Tate Gallery: "Keene is unquestionably the greatest of the great number of artists thrown up by day-to-day drawing. His drawings are a revelation...
...show of her work was held in London, the critical reaction was guarded. This time the critics took a second look. Wrote John Russell in the Sunday Times: "The judgment of history . . . will rank Miss John as one of the rare, complete individuals among women painters." Said Sir John Rothenstein, director of the Tate: "She is the best woman painter who has ever painted in England...
...reticent as her painting. Inwardly, her life was one of intense feeling, rebellion and search. She was a spinster who became the mistress of Sculptor Auguste Rodin, an agnostic who turned to the Roman Catholic Church. In his new book, Modern English Painters, published last week, Sir John Rothenstein devotes a chapter to Gwen John, tells much of her story for the first time...