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...burly Karel Appel is Holland's best-known living painter, but greater fame and fortune came to him from out-side his native land. Last week, out of 131 paintings from 28 nations, most of them on display at Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Appel copped the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the fattest of all international art prizes, for a violent, swirling abstraction called Woman with Ostrich, in which neither woman, nor ostrich was particularly recognizable except to those who have been overexposed to the Rorschach inkblot tests. At the Martha Jackson Gallery a few blocks south...
...Personally," Painter Jean Dubuffet once declared, "I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness." No one can accuse Dubuffet of being false to his credo, for his paintings (see color) often seem to be the work of a savage or a madman-or a child. They have caused gasps of shock and hoots of derision; yet today a Dubuffet canvas can command as much as $30,000, and among critics it is now the thing to say that Dubuffet himself is the most important painter to come out of postwar France...
Balloons & Banners. The son of an Irish-born odd-job man, Prendergast grew up in Boston, started his career at 14 as an apprentice to a painter of show cards for stores. From early childhood he had wanted to be an artist, spent his free time endlessly sketching cows. Finally he scraped together enough money to go to Paris and then to Italy. Though he attended art classes, he found his real teachers elsewhere - the 16th century Vittore Carpaccio of Venice and France's Degas, Cézanne, Bonnard and Gauguin...
...Prendergast did not greatly regret his deafness. He said he was glad to find that people did not shout the disagreeable things they had to say. Besides, he was never too deaf to hear good news from the art world. When he was told that some young painter had received a deserved recognition, he would always say. 'Well, there's still hope for the country...
Died. Maud ("Great-Granny") Falkner (her spelling), 88, late-in-life painter, and mother of Novelists William (The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary) and John (Men Working, Chooky) Faulkner (their spelling); of a stroke; in her home at Oxford, Miss. Maud Falkner began her painting in a WPA art class in 1941, produced some 600 oils, most of them copies of old masters but also many Negro portraits and rural landscapes...