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...nothing pastoral about Sutherland's nature: a praying mantis peers from a wicked void of scarlet, a skull dangles in a tapestry of leaves and blue sky, a snake sneaks up to a formal fountain, a torso flails agains: gravity. In his own words, Britain's topflight painter makes "emotional paraphrases of reality." They have never been more horrible or beautiful. Twenty-five recent oils. Through June...
STEPHEN GREENE-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. "There is always something terrible happening in a beautiful world," says Greene. As a figurative painter he showed it by placing live bodies in coffins. Now he abstracts the figure, with a dismembered limb or an amorphous heap of flesh leaves only the sense of the human presence. Recent works, flooded with clear uncluttered color, and drawings. Through...
ALBERT MARQUET-Knoedler, 14 East 57th. Matisse said of him: "He is our Hokusai." But Marquet, though cunning and concise with lines, was a painter more dexterous than daring. He was also well-traveled, painted the harbors of Hamburg, Le Havre, Naples, Algiers with a tourist's sweeping gaze, as well as Paris scenes. One hundred works cover 49 years. Through...
MODEST CUIXART-Bonino, 7 West 57th. Spanish Painter Cuixart mixes his own concoction of materials, juxtaposes baroque designs with flesh-colored cubist construction. Sensuous red and black lines speak of darkness and calamity. Through...
GUGGENHEIM- Fifth Ave. at 89th. The cities in which Van Gogh lived are landmarks in his style. His nephew's collection (120 works) offers a unique opportunity to follow the painter's path. Leaving the bleak peasantry of Nuenen (The Potato Eaters) for Antwerp and Paris, his palette brightens. When he reaches Aries in the south of France it bursts into the brilliant light of high noon (Sunflowers, The Harvest, his own Yellow House). Van Gogh spent the last two months of his life at Auvers-sur-Oise, there painted skies deepening with twilight. Through June...