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In the galleries sit hamburgers the size of Volkswagens. Here is a comfy zebra-striped chair draped with a leopard coat marked by the gallery PLEASE DON'T SIT. And right there behind the gallerygoer is a plaster facsimile of a real person looking like a petrified floorwalker. Coke...
To Abstraction & Back. De Staël destroyed all of his pre-World War II paintings, which, judging from a few surviving drawings, were representational. War marked his second phase, forcing his art away from nature into abstraction. It is his late paintings (see color), which combine slabs of bright...
When Jeannine died in 1946, partially of malnutrition, De Staël settled into a black period that ended just as his third dealer, Jacques Dubourg, began to find an audience for his work. One of the first to herald him was Cubist Georges Braque, who announced: "De Staë...
De Staël painted the thousand vibrations that nature stirred in him until the end. Shortly before his suicide he wrote to his dealer: "I haven't got the strength to finish my paintings." A few days later, he began the largest canvas 13 ft. by 20 ft...
Stieglitz had gone to Berlin to study engineering, but one day day he noticed a camera in a store window. He went inside and bought it. From that time, the camera "fascinated me, first as a passion, then as an obsession," Stieglitz wrote later. "The camera was waiting for me...