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...Pablo Picasso, Shepherd Holding a Lamb, which proves that Picasso can be a lot more forceful in 3-D than in some of his two-dimensional painted abstractions. There is also Jacob Epstein's majestic, reposeful Madonna and Child, an anguished Horse by Italy's Marino Marini, and a skeletal abstraction, Double Standing Figure, by Britain's Henry Moore. Among the sculpture are evergreens, geraniums and winter jasmine...
...militant moderns as Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens, and they too seem to be getting more natural-even Henry Moore's recent lumps and holes look more like people. Finally, Ritchie shows statues by two Italians who have worked from the beginning in the tradition of Rodin: Marino Marini, who does spraddle-legged horses and dumpy riders, and Giacomo Manzu, whose warmly human Child on Chair, of a relaxed and innocently nude young girl, was one of the exhibit's highlights...
ITALIAN SCULPTURE: Milan's Marino Marini (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), whose stiff-legged horses and plump riders have become Marini trademarks...
Almost immediately, artists began drafting manifestoes denouncing the show as reactionary. Half the invited big names, including Painters Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli, Renzo Vespignani and Sculptor Marino Marini, flatly refused to exhibit, and 50 of them dispatched a violently worded protest. Their big objection: the Quadriennale, traditionally a show of contemporary art, was devoting entirely too much space to the works of the dead. Countered exhibit officials: "After so much modern art, the visitor needs a hall or two in which to rest. To reproach us for this is like reproaching an exhibition for having...
...afford to experiment, since she keeps her modern art purchases in a guest house. The boldest of collectors, she is also the most reticent, and springs from rather than to the defense of her choices. Along with distinguished sculptures by such European moderns as Brancusi, Giacometti, Lipschitz and Marini, she buys the smear-technique abstractions of such avant-garde Manhattanites as Baziotes, Motherwell, Rothko and Tomlin. Her hand-dribbled Jackson Pollock (see cut) is appropriately small...