Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries are 29 sculptures with a vastly different intent. Paris Sculptor Etienne Hajdu, 50, born in Rumania of Hungarian parents, first approached his work under the inspiration of Abstractionists Fernand Leger and Brancusi. A wartime stint as a laborer in a Pyrenees marble quarry and an abrupt shift back to the position that "man is wonderful" gave him a new material and new goal...
...Rome's Palazzo Barberini, whimsical, Sicilian-born Emilio Greco, 44, winner of the top Italian sculpture award at the last Venice Biennale, showed 42 sculptures covering 20 years' work. To Sculptor Greco's delight, it was his newest work, three monumental bronze Grand Bathers, that had the critics (including famed Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù) singing his praises...
...will be leaving any minute,'' protested Sam. "Is there something wrong with my passport?" But the official handed him over to an inspector of police, who began firing absurd questions at him: "You have a wife living in Paris. Is that right?" "So you yourself are a sculptor ... Is that right?" Before long, Sam, a bachelor and no sculptor, realized that he was in a nasty hole-a victim of mistaken identity...
...graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls, and the lawn has a skyward-staring, 5½-ft. bronze, The Manipulator, by British Sculptor-Welder Reg Butler. Still sticking to his father's advice, "Never look for a bargain," Bareiss buys "only what I like...
...sellout shows this year: Mark Rothko (top price $5,000), Hans Hofmann (top $7,500), Philip Guston (top $4,000), and William Baziotes, whose recent show sold out at $3,500 top even before it opened. Adolph Gottlieb's show sold eight of ten (top $4,000), and Sculptor Seymour Lipton's show sold 16 of 21 with a top price...