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A CHURCHILL CANVAS, by John Spencer Churchill (308 pp.; Little, Brown; $5.75). Uncle could ape a gorilla as well as any man who ever lived. "Grr, grr," he would roar, and then crouch in the branches of an oak, "baring his teeth and pounding his chest with his fists." At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Jan. 19, 1962 | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Amidst a buzz of rumors, the Cleveland Museum of Art paid an estimated $550,000 in 1959 for Rubens' Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Chase. Last week Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty said he had gambled more than $400,000 that Cleveland has a fake. New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Would Rubens Paint a Bird? | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Getty boasts an even longer pedigree for his Diana, tracing it to 1655 (Rubens died in 1640), when the Marquis de Leganés. Spanish Ambassador to Brussels and a friend of Rubens', listed the work in an inventory of his collection. Getty's Rubens expert, Columbia Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Would Rubens Paint a Bird? | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

In the accompanying catalogue, one-time New York Times Critic Dore Ashton does her sympathetic best to sustain the Louvre thesis that Moreau was a kind of New Frontiersman of Abstraction. Like the thoroughgoing pro that he was, Moreau often did sketches before starting a large work, some being orchestrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surrealism's Fathers | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

About five minutes after an off-Broadway play called The Apple, by Jack Gelber, begins, a character picks up a spatula, slings blobs of paint at a transparent plastic canvas, and then kneads the goo together with a rolling pin. Peering around this cunningly messy parody of abstract art with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Anatomy of the Absurd | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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