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...Andrew Wyeth-America's poet-painter-whose every brush stroke defines the poignancy of man's condition, comforts him in turn with beauty wrought from dried grass and chilling winds...
...show, organized by the American Federation of Arts, of 75 paintings from the collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. But then, Knoedler's frequently has good shows, for among the artists it represents are Henry Moore, Andrew Wyeth, Etienne Hajdu, Lynn Chadwick and the abstract painter Vieira da Silva. Knoedler's has been in business since 1846, and the elegant mansion it occupies lends an air of Old World gentility to the business transacted in damask-walled rooms upstairs. President E. Coe Kerr Jr. says he will deal in "everything in paintings and sculptures," provided they are good. Prices...
...from there the prices soar up to six figures. As an exhibition hall, the gallery has led a double life. On its fifth floor it has put on an average of five benefit shows a year that were of museum caliber; this week an exhibition called "The Painter as Historian" will display a number of masterpieces never shown in public before...
Rooms at the Top. The big four are by no means the only places in Manhattan to buy a masterwork. For certain living masters-Miró, Giacometti or Balthus, for instance-the place to go is the gallery owned by Pierre Matisse, son of Painter Henri Matisse. The Perls Galleries represent Calder and Archipenko, and they do a reputable business in "painters of the Picasso generation" like Braque, Modigliani, Soutine and Utrillo. Catherine Viviano on East 57th Street is strong on modern Italians like Afro and Cremonini, but she also represents the surrealist Kay Sage and the estate...
...more eclectic of the better dealers is polyglot George Staempfli, whose wares range from the elegant wired constructions of Harry Bertoia to the thick figure paintings of the late David Park to the haunting geometry of Painter Attilio Salemme. Otto Gerson deals mostly in first-rate sculpture from Barlach to David Smith. The Willard Gallery (Feininger, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Sculptor Richard Lippold) is excellent; so is John Bernard Myers' Tibor de Nagy Gallery, whose artists include Larry Rivers, Robert Goodnough and Fairfield Porter. In the print field, the sightseer or collector can do no better than start...