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...Groschwitz introduces 99 foreign artists and 54 U.S. artists to the Carnegie. None of the newcomers won prizes, although, of course, a jury went through the dismal ritual of choosing and awarding. The jury, composed of former Baltimore Museum Director Adelyn Breeskin, Abstractionist Hans Hartung, and British Picasso Expert...
Roland Penrose, gave $2,000 apiece to six unadventurous choices. France's abstractionist Pierre Soulages, 45, won with an unevocative work titled 24 November '63. Spain's slashing Antonio Saura, 34, scored with an Imaginary Portrait of Goya. Hard edge got the nod as the jury's candidate for successor to abstract expressionism. The U.S.'s Ellsworth Kelly, 41, and Britain's Victor Pasmore, 56, won prizes with undistinguished glops of color. Sculpture prizes went to Jean Arp, 77, and Eduardo Chillida...
That moment in 1910 when Vasily Kandinsky laid down his brush upon finishing a certain watercolor represents what is often regarded as the birth of abstract painting. Last week Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum put the pioneer abstractionist's modern-day reputation to a bold test: at the London art auction house of Sotheby & Co., the museum offered for sale no less than 50 of its 170 Kandinskys. Fears that such a mass sale might depress the market proved unwarranted. For it was painting from Kandinsky's early abstractionist period that brought the top money...
HUGO WEBER-Howard Wise, 50 West 57th St. Last year's show by the Swiss-born abstractionist had a rivers-of-the-world motif. Now Weber has turned to love; his titles contain the word over and over. The paintings could just as easily be about indigestion. Through...
...quarters of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (see opposite page). Two years ago, few people outside his native Germany had ever heard of Bissier; it took a major prize at the São Paulo Bienal in 1961 to establish him abroad as the leading abstractionist of small harmonies...