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...official in his administration. Like the mayor, City Controller Alexander Hemphill, 40, is a well-heeled blueblood with an Ivy League background (University of Pennsylvania '43). The father of seven, he is the godfather of a Dilworth grandchild, and a fancier of Utrillo and Rouault prints. He also takes his watchdog job as city controller seriously -so seriously that when he decided to run for election in 1957, Dilworth tried to persuade him to withdraw. Says Hemphill: "I just told him to go to hell...
...exhibit contains examples from the work of nearly every major modern artist: Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Braque, Rouault, and on and on. Most of the books shown are large, deluxe volumes called by the French livres de peintres...
...collection ranges from the Norwegian Edvard Munch to Canada's Pollock-like abstract expressionist, Jean-Paul Riopelle. Bonnard. Villon, Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Poliakoff and Rouault are all represented. One of Paul Klee's best-known works. Seven O'Clock over the Roofs, looks like a toy town built with brown and greenish blocks. Oslo had never seen a finer group of Juan Crises, nor had it been exposed to Surrealist Max Ernst...
...Gallery offered such signed works as a Miró color etching for $90, a Picasso poster for $75. The Associated American Artists started with Raphael Soyer at $14.75, and its unsigned prints included a $19.50 Manet, a $32.50 Chagall, a $40 Renoir, a $70 Cézanne, a $190 Rouault...
Included were the work of 19 Italians and five Frenchmen, all on their very best behavior. Rodin is represented by a terra cotta study of his Thinker, Rouault by a somber Autumn. About the liveliest item in the show is a couple of playful cats done by Sculptor Pericle Fazzini. As usual, Giorgio de Chirico was unhappy about the choice of his work-an uninspired Still Life with Fruit and Milan Cathedral Seen from Rooftops. Said he: "Of course all my works are good, but these are of lesser importance...