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PAUL REYBEROLLE-Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The U.S. gets its first good look at a French painter who serves up frogs, couples and countrysides. As if performing a fertility rite in the paint itself, Reyberolle stirs around a mess of goopy green to convey the spume and spawn of swamp life and, with a calculated confusion of limbs, portrays lovers tumbling in a field, successfully suggests the mystery and fecundity of nature. Thirty oils. Through June...
...YORK UNIVERSITY-Gould Student Center, University Ave. at 181st. What makes the long haul up to The Bronx worthwhile is the New York debut of a young and promising painter who infuses her abstractions with vitality. Tamara Thompson, 29, has structural poise and color sensitivity, sturdy values that serve many moods. October Painting summons the warm chill of a fall day. American Eagle is a glossy salute in red, white, blue and-lavender. Works in oil, gouache, Liquitex. Through...
...curvilinear museum makes a fitting setting for the "endlessness" of Architect-Sculptor Frederick Kiesler, who turns a room into a work of art, links painted and sculpted units to form a labyrinth of surprises. In the main gallery is the 120-work Van Gogh collection lent by the painter's nephew. Both exhibitions through June...
GALLERY OF MODERN ART-Columbus Circle at 59th. Upstaging each other: Russian-born Painter Pavel Tchelitchew (through May 24), Pre-Raphaelites, and Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (50 works). Through...
...foothills of the French Maritime Alps near his home in sunny Menton. But he says: "Can you imagine anything more boring than painting mountain gorges?" And what emerges on canvas, as recollected in his studio, is less like Turner than the work of his close friend Francis Bacon, the painter of screaming popes. Sutherland's is a world that bristles with spiky artichokes and cacti or the angular postures of grasshoppers and mantises...