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MINO MACCARI-Gallery 63, 721 Madison Ave. at 63rd St. The first U.S. one-man show by an Italian painter-etcher. Viewers will be reminded of Grosz, Daumier and Goya with their stingers removed: Maccari is a sympathetic satirist. Through...
ANDRE DERAIN-Hutton, 41 East 57th St. Forty-four bronzes by a painter who sculpted for fun. Also at Hutton: a groupt of German expressionist painters, including Gabriele Münter, Ernst Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky. Through...
...CUMMINGS-Downtown Gallery, 32 East 51st St. The poet and typographical eccentric was also a painter, but the influences of Van Gogh, Picasso and Kandinsky on the 40-odd paintings in this show suggest that Cummings put his most original ideas into print. Also at Downtown, some paintings by Ben Shahn done as set designs for Cummings' play HIM. Through...
MILTON AVERY-Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th St. First showing of the innocent etchings and woodcuts of an artist usually identified as a painter. Through Nov. 9. More Avery is on view at Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1018 Madison Ave. at 79th St.-16 paintings, deceptively simple, cautiously colored, mostly agreeable. Through...
Bacon's success is sudden. Not until the age of 40 did he have his first one-man show. Today he is Britain's foremost painter. He hearkens back to the English portrait tradition-the grand manner. This phrase was used by Sir Joshua Reynolds to define the ideal High Renaissance portrayal of the human figure in elevated themes. The theme of Bacon's grand manner is man's eventual, often brutal descent into the grave-but it is nevertheless a way of dealing with the lofty idea of man against tragic destiny, sometimes in austere...