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...Munch." In The Hague, he saw works by Odilon Redon for the first time; then he went to Paris, where he teamed up with Painter Walter Pach and also wired Davies to come over and help him. The Americans "practically lived in taxicabs." They met the brothers Duchamp-Villon and the dealer Ambroise Vollard. They persuaded Constantin Brancusi to make his U.S. debut in their show, arranged for paintings by Braque and Picasso...
...Walter Arensberg and Stephen C. Clark both bought from the show. The Metropolitan Museum of Art became the first U.S. museum to buy a Cézanne; a San Francisco dealer snapped up Duchamp's Nude sight unseen. As a matter of fact, Duchamp and his brother, Jacques Villon, sold everything they had on display...
...gentle, big-boned man who was born in Wisconsin. Painter Knaths, 71. has never been a part of any major U.S. art movement. He acknowledges his debt to Cezanne, as well as to Villon and Delaunay for color and Juan Gris for his sense of plane structure. But Knaths (pronounced with the K sounded) paints only like Knaths. for he has always viewed the world through his own private prism...
...approach could lead to disaster, but if disasters there are in the Hirshhorn collection as a whole, they will not be found at the Guggenheim. From the 37 Daumiers to the 17 Degas, the 27 Moores and the 15 Giacomettis; from the three heads of Baudelaire-one by Duchamp-Villon, one by Rodin, and a third by Elie Nadelman-to Leonard Baskin's mournful John Donne in his Winding Cloth, to the delicate construction by Naum Gabo, the exhibition provides one delight after another...
...surrealistically horrifying present with an all too real past that can never completely die in the memory lies at the heart of Faulkner's artistic creation. This sense of time is both peculiarly Southern and universal: one thinks of Poe, of Proust, of Lanier, or even of Francois Villon...