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About six months ago the Tate Gallery got out a new catalog of its modern French paintings. Under the name of each artist was a brief and extremely reticent biography. One of these referred to a Spanish artist named Maurice Utrillo, 1883-deceased, painter of Paris street scenes. Within a week the catalog was withdrawn from circulation and a correction was made, but to no avail...
...Fellow feels hurt speaking this way. Thou wert right, Horace: Painters have licence in everything. But do artists? One bit called, "Odalisque", a young girl reclining on a coach looks more like Steig's stuff, but no, it's another of Borges. Utrillo's contribution had best be called "four big hips going to grub" than "Auberge". And, gentle readers, if you see the "Magnetic Cultivation of Planets," in Paul Klee's little brain child then please come to the Vagabond's Tower. Rare souls are always welcome...
...gallery connections, smartchart plugging, the humors of art critics and socialite fads too often puff them out of line with real values. Last week for the first time since 1927 works by such debatable modernists as Amédé Modigliani, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Jules Pascin and Maurice Utrillo were opened to the rude winter blast of a public auction in Manhattan's Rains Auction Rooms. Before a hard-boiled dealer and socialite crowd, one of Modigliani's tuberculous women sold for the evening's top price, $3,300; another for $650. A pale, pink Pascin...
...eyed Alexander Woollcott entertained his public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr-rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added...
...This has been done, and the Utrillo is mine-until December. I think I look at it oftener, and the more fondly, because I know it is not to be with me long. I also think that by December I will have had it long enough to know it by heart and be ready, therefore, to see another in its place. Perhaps it will work out that every three months a new painting will hang in that space on the same terms. I know I want to spend a few weeks with a Hopper. Has anyone got a good Monet...