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When the Nazis occupied the city, the party was over. The grim mood of the times is reflected in paintings like Jean Dubuffet's Building Fa?ades of 1946, where graffiti-like scratches are clawed into a thick black surface, and in sculpture like the Swiss Alberto Giacometti's attenuated and isolated figures. Death's heads entered Picasso's work. Playwright Antonin Artaud spent the war in mental hospitals undergoing electroshock therapy. His Self-Portrait of 1947 almost destroys its flimsy paper with savage pencil lines. It's in a private collection, so here is a rare chance to see this...
...House, 1958--a parody of the House of Horrors that isn't quite a parody because its contents are more subtle than you would expect, mere hauntings rather than the traces of death or dismemberment--yet affecting all the same, like an American Gothic version of early, Surrealist Giacometti...
...played trumpet with the Alan Price Set, founded by the former Animals keyboardist. DIED. FANNY BRENNAN, 80, French-born American surrealist painter whose childhood was spent among the international artistic circles of 1920s Paris; in New York City. As a young artist she had her portrait drawn by Alberto Giacometti and taught Pablo Picasso how to play Chinese checkers. Her specialty was miniature still lifes, usually just a few inches wide. DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the 1970s U.S. rock band that sold 35 million albums and is best known for its songs Freebird...
This totemic reduction of nature--the streamlining of a bird's body, the swish of its flight--was a prediction of the technological world to come in the second half of the century. RUNNERS-UP Guitar by Pablo Picasso; The Chariot by Alberto Giacometti...
...postwar artists like Jean Dubuffet and Antoni Tapies, who were sifting the rubble for a new imagery suited to a postapocalyptic world. Brassai would also make a considerable name for himself through his camera portraits of the artists and writers who were his friends, including Picasso, Miller, Matisse and Giacometti. But his greatest work will always be his views of nocturnal Paris. He made the night something...