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...ballet, The Four Temperaments. Swaddled with shreds of drapery, bodices bandaged with ribbons, they seemed like cats' playthings, a ragpicker's delight, a macabre masquerade of Martians. Only a slippered leg or two revealed that they were real live dancers, panoplied in fantastic dress by Surrealist Kurt Seligmann. But it was natural that Seligmann would design costumes for diversion. His art always cloaked anatomy in fanciful clothes. In costume design or painting, he could easily subtract the dancer from the dance (see opposite page...
...Kurt Seligmann, Swiss-born painter -for a show of abstract oils with an accent of surrealism...
Last week the doctor and his wife, Jean H. Seligmann, produced the result of that experience: a sky-blue little book called The Wonder of Life (Simon & Schuster; $1.75). Since the pupils had a hand in it, the book is as fresh as a daisy, has no trace of talking down. At home Dr. Levine answers every question of his three-year-old daughter. But he does not try to burden her with all the facts of life. Since his book has a solid grounding in biology, and gives detailed sex information, Dr. Levine recommends it for children past...
...JAMES F. SELIGMANN...
Experts creamily agreed last week that the sale was going quite well. Purchases after two days totted up to $242,000. Jacques Seligmann of Paris & Manhattan paid $19,000 for Bouchardon's slim, adolescent statue of Cupid, which the elder Schiff acquired...