Word: tates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third show of his young 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...
...Matisse for his color-drenched canvases. But, at 83, France's ailing master is anxious to be known for his work in another medium before he dies: his sculpture. There isn't much of it, and only rarely has it been shown. Last week London's Tate Gallery gladly obliged the old man with the largest exhibit of Matisse sculpture ever shown, 49 pieces, almost all of his output in clay and bronze...
...knife might never challenge his brush, but his work is still something any sculptor could be proud of. He began in 1899, at the age of 29, and worked in fits & starts until 1930, never long enough to develop a steady style. The gleaming bronzes at the Tate alternate between muscular realism and cubist distortion, are smooth and rough, delicate and grossly bulky. Yet each reflects the Matisse eye for form...
From 1906 on, Matisse's sculpture became more & more distorted as he flirted with cubism. The Tate exhibit shows a vigorously lumpy Reclining Nude, a small Torso with Head, unnaturally swaybacked, with cubes for breasts. As in his paintings, Matisse often did several studies leading up to a final sculpture; there are four heads of Jeannette, the first a standard, lifelike portrait, the last a fiercely distorted impression, squeezed and hacked out of shape...
...again, the cycle was the same: first realism, then a- gradual swing forward until his bronzes became as stylized as his canvases. Matisse's Head of Marguerite (1915) is sharp and delicate, his Large Seated Nude (1925) a study in flat, glossy planes. At the end of Tate's exhibit are his two final works: Venus in a Shell, long-legged and featureless, her arms drawn up behind her head, and Tiara, a writhing, lumpy mass of hair and head. Their date is 1930, and as far as the world knows, Matisse has never done another sculpture...