Word: terra-cottas
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...Cezanne-and read avidly through the Greek classics. The classics, he felt, had everything a sculptor could want, especially the story of how Jupiter disguised himself as a bull and carried the fair Europa off to Crete. Nakian spent five years pummeling and twisting the clay for a huge terra-cotta abstract of the Rape of Europa. "It was a tremendous, wild figure, more bizarre than Picasso or Henry Moore," but it lacked "greatness." Nakian destroyed it with blows of his sledge...
...17th Century castle had become, last week, a 20th Century shrine. Castle Grimaldi, in the Riviera town of Antibes, had long been used as a museum, but hardly anyone bothered now to look at its ancient coins, copies of Michelangelo and terra-cotta statuettes. For Pablo Picasso had hung his latest paintings in its tiled galleries. The regular habitues were bustled aside by a throng of up-to-the-minute pilgrims, who had come to see for themselves the newest chapter in the protean history of Picasso...
...Iraq, a toy shop of the 14th Century was unearthed. It was stocked with 400 tiny terra-cotta figures wearing Moslem soldier costumes...
Other things of interest in the exhibition are two portrait busts, by Pajon and Houdon, and several terra-cotta plaques by Clodian. There are also four chairs after Oudry, covered with Beauvaih tapestry, which together with several tables and consoles give an idea of the furniture of this period...
...characteristics of the Louis XIV period, to David, who was the first of the neoclassic, painters. Among the groups which will be included are six excellent examples of Chardin, of which one is "Les Bulles de Savon", portraits by Grenze. Duplessis, Tuque, Proudhon, and Drouais, and two terra-cotta reliefs by Clodion. David's "Portrait of Mme, de Serdan" is one of the high lights of the exhibition, which also includes portrait-busts by Pajou and Houdon. Three of the four periods of Fragonard are represented, while Pater and Lancret, of the school of Watteau, are also displayed...