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C20 ART The New York Times, Friday, November 16, 1979 [[advertisements]] Seascapes Frank Knox Morton Rehn, American artist, 1848-1914. $3,200 to $10,000. Altman's Fine Art Gallery, eight floor, Fifth Avenue store only. B Altman & Co [[image - framed painting]] Master Prints from Six Centuries of Graphic Art [[image - a print]] Artists represented in the exhibition include: Durer Canaletto Degas Matisse van Leyden Piranesi Whistler Marin Parmigianino Goya Renoir Villon Ghisi Stubbs Cassatt Klee Brueghel Corot Hassam Picasso Goltzius Delacroix Prendergast Bellows Callot Daumier Munch Braque van Dyck Millet Signac Hopper Rembrandt Pissaro Toulouse-Lautree Heckel Bol Manet Bonnard Beckmann Our Catalogue 10 of old master and modern prints, fully illustrated and documented, will be published in January and is available for $8 ($10 air mail). DAVID TUNICK, INC. [[image - logo]] New Address: 12 East 81st Street, NYC 10028 (212) 570-0090 Tuesday-Saturday, 10 to 5 Muhelyart Tapestries November 13-December 8 Giacomo Balla Heinrich Campendonk Fortunato Depero Thiamer Gyarmathy Paul Klee Oskar Kokoschka Frank Kupka Kasimir Malevitch Mario Radice Mauro Reggiani Roger Selden Gino Severini Mark Tobey Marisa del Re Gallery 41 East 57th, New York Telephone (212)688-1843 Catalog on request WESTBURY GALLERY 62 EASAT 55th ST. 212-688-7484 OPENING EXHIBITION SURREY NOVEMBER 16 THROUGH DECEMBER 6 MAX WEBER SCULPTURE Drawings & Prints FORUM GALLERY 1018 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK (AT 79TH STREET) TWO ARTISTS CORA SUE CRONEMEYER MICHAEL HARNETT LYNN KOTTLER GALLERIES RE 4-3491 3E. 65TH ST. NYC NOV.17th-NOV.30TH [Image] For the Sophisticated Investor/Collector Authentic Pre-Colombian MAYAN ARTIFACTS Being sold from a limited private collection. Tremendous opportunity to capitalize on high returns in the art market. Write: ARTIFACTS P.O. 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DEC,15 {IMAGE} MICHAL LOEW Marilyn pearl gallery 29 west {IMAGE] Frumkin Gallery WILEY 50.W.57 {IMAGINE] ELLENA BORSTEIN RECENT PAINTINGS THRU DECEMBER 1 ANDRE ZARRE 41 E. 57th ST NEW YORK / 752-0498 DON Eddy Nancy Hoffman 429 west Broadway New York /966-6676 ACQUAVELLA Important Exhibition XIX & XX CENTURY MASTER PAINTINGS Trough November 30th -Sisley -Redon -Matisse -Monet -Chagall -Braque -Van Gogh -Miro -Picasso -Toulouse-Lautrec -Modigliani -DE KOONING -Pissarro -Bonnard -Ernst -Cezanne -Grosz -Dubuffet Works are for sale Complete catalogue available 22 color illustrations $6.00 ACQUAVELLA GALLERIES, INC. 18 East 79th Street New York 10021 (212) 734-6300 Gallery hours Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. RONIN GALERY 605 Madison Avenue (57th-58 Streets) New York, NEW YORK 10022 (212) 688-0188 Famous Views of 60-odd Provinces by Hiroshige(1797-1858) Thru December 1st. Largest selection of fine 17-20th century woodblock prints in the U.S. [[image]] Oct. 24 to Nov. 17 Paris Felix Vercel presents exclusively Bouyssou Retrospective PISSARRO * LEGER * GLEIZES HERBIN * UTRILLO * VLAMINCK LOISEAU * MARQUET * LHOTE, etc. and GALLERY PAINTERS sculpture by CHARPENTIER 710 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK AT 63rd TEL 832-9590 Auction House Looking For Experienced Cataloger. Knowledgeable in Antique English and French Furniture and Furnishings, Decorative Arts. Must Have References Top Salary-Benefits Willing to Relocate to Southeast All Application Held in Strictest Confidence Reply Box Y7799Times Japanese Screens 30 original screens just arrived from Mitsukoshi Collection in Japan 16th - 19th Century (mainly 18th Century) screens in good condition. Excellent investment value Superb quality for interior design. New York Mitsukoshi 465 Park Avenue at 57th Street Gallery:(212)935-6969(By appointment only) KENNETH NOLAND LEO CASTELLI NOV 17 - DEC 8/420 WEST B'DWAY WILLIAM FARES Recent Paintings Nov. 15-Nov 24 54 Greene Fifth Floor 212-255-8975 JAMES BROOKS and GIORGIO CAVALLON "Paintings of the Seventies" November 14 thru December 31 GRUENBEBAUM 38 E 57 NYC 10022 212-838-8245 SEYMOUR LIPTON Speaks on his Aesthetics Sun. Nov. 18 at 3p.m. Admission to lecture & museum Non members- $3.50 Members- $1.50 For reservations and information phone 860-1888 THE JEWISH MUSEUM 5th Ave. at 92nd St. Under the auspices of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America ART OF THE TWENTIES "DER STURM" and "BAUHAUS" related East-European Artists: Bortnyik - Kromka - Kadar - Kassak -Weininger - Tihanyi - Mattis-Teutsch - Scheiber -Moholy-Nagy - Uitz - Hincz Matignon Gallery Inc. 897 Madison Ave. N.Y. 10021 (Near 72nd Street) 628-6886 737-4563 ART AUCTIONS All Media FRIDAY NOV. 16 8:30 P.M. On view in Gallery 1-5 P.M. SALMAGUNDI CLUB America's Oldest Art Club 47 Fifth Ave. N.Y.C 255-7740 Demonstrations: Nov. 4, 1:30 P.M. Margaret Cassidy, Sculpture Nov. 11, 1:30 P.M. Claudia Post Freitas, Pastel Phone Mgr. for Auction Night Dinner Res. Claude Grosperrin The Eric Galleries 61 E. 57 - 371-9270 Eric de Kolb Through Dec. 1 Recent Paintings Bodley 1063 Madison Art: The Modern Looks Back at 20's [image] Gerald Murphy's "Wasp and Pear" (1927), from "Art of the 20's" at the Museum of Modern Art. By John Russell "Art of the 20's" at the Museum of Modern Art is an exhibition of quite exceptional interest on more than one count. It is full of remarkable works of art – some famous, some unknown - and it has been carried out with the energy, the ingenuity and the discrimination that were the mark of the Modern Museum in its pioneering days. Everything in it is drawn from the museum's own collections. It is also an event of some poignancy, in that it marks both the 50th anniversary of the museum's opening and the imminent departure of William S. Lieberman, who is moving to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Dec. 1 after half a working lifetime in the service of the Museum of Modern Art. It comes at a time when some people are saying the Modern Museum what Dean Acheson once said of the British Empire: that it has lost its function and has yet to find a role. Not only has the battle for modern art long been won, those people say, but there is no longer any such thing as "modern art" in the sense that the words were used by the founders of the museum. "Art of the 20's" cannot refute that argument, but it makes us aware – perhaps as never before – of the enduring good sense of the principles that Alfred H. Barr Jr. and his colleagues began to put into practice just 50 years ago. The first of these was the belief that it is in major works of art that each generation defines itself once and for all. This led them to go all out for paintings like the "Three Musicians" of Picasso, "Composition C" by Mondrian, the "Grand Déjenuer" of Fernand Léger, the "Family Picture" by Max Beckmann and the "Menaced Assassin" of René Magritte. These paintings are distinctly of the 1920's. Unthinkable before that decade, they sum it up in ways that we all recognize, even if we may differ as to how they should be put into words. The next master principle for the founding fathers of the museum was that there is no such thing as too much material. Mr. Barr and his colleagues were, of course, working in domains where few were ready to follow them. It was almost on their own that they investigated the Russian avant-garde, the penetralia of European Surrealism, the farthest and faintest echoes of the Bauhaus and the then barely known photographs of Eugène Atget. Hardly anyone wanted these things at the time, and the Modern Museum was heart and soul in the accumulation business. That universal curiosity paid off, moreover. "Art of the 20's" proves all over again that "minor" does not mean "insignificant," and a great job of resuscitation is being done at the Modern. Among those so favored, now and through Jan. 22, are half-forgotten German photographers, Australian-born etchers, derivatives of George Grosz, designers for plays that died out of town, flavorsome recorders of this aspect or that of everyday American and many another kind of artist for whom no one has lately said a good word. To make material of that sort come alive, you have to love it. It isn't good enough to be like those younger tyrants of taste who look at works of art as if they would like to do them an injury. It takes an inventive, affectionate and all-knowing cast of mind, and that is exactly what we find in "Art of the 20's" Who but Mr. Lieberman would hang documentary photographs of the Graf Zeppelin next to a collage by Max Ernst of an imaginary space ship? Or hang a drawing by the 20-year-old Jean Dubuffet next to a portrait of Euripides by Giorgio de Chirico? Or contrast city life as seen by Otto Dix, who spared us not even the most gruesome of medical details, with the pacific and tumbledown London of Walter Sickert? Eventually the exhibition reveals itself as, in effect, an imaginative self-portrait of a decade as memorable as any in the history of 20th-century art. Mr. Lieberman leaves the 20's free to define themselves in their own terms. Coincidentally, he gives us the last of many lessons in how to make an exhibition that we shall never forget. " No one is irreplaceable, " people say, but in this particular context Mr. Lieberman may prove them wrong. Other current shows of interest: Anthony Caro (Andre Emmerich Gallery, 41 East 57th Street): Hardly since Rodin has there been a sculptor of high quality who is as productive as Anthony Caro. At home in London, he never stops. Set down in a foreign city, he finds his way to precisely the new technical devices or the stock of unwonted material that starts him up all over again. This year he has returned with spectacular success to a kind of sculpture that he began to produce a little more than 10 years ago: the table piece. Initially, these pieces used to swing themselves up and around the tabletop like climbers on the last lap of a particularly taxing ascent. Just occasionally they still do this, as in one of the new pieces at the Emmerich Gallery, where a money wrench folds itself over the edge of a table in a way that may remind us of something that David Smith did when he was working in Spoleto, Italy. But fundamentally, these new small sculptures just sit on the top of the table with that look of cheekiness that is peculiar to a Caro. It is as if the component parts couldn't get over their surprise at what Caro has done with them. And, as it happens, we don't get over it, either. These are handmade sculptures, in which no great clanking machine has stood between us and the sculptor's first thoughts. They have the immediacy of Caro's very best work; and, seen all together on a white table under a bright light, they reaffirm his position as the most inventive of living sculptors. (through Dec. 1.) Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition (Galerie St. Etienne, 24 West 57th Street): The third month of World War II was not the best of times to found a gallery anywhere in the Western world; but Dr. Otto Kallir stuck with the work he loved best and in time New York came round to it. Fort years later, some of his favorites –above all, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele – are in high fashion, and the others have won for themselves at the very least a friendly acceptance. Mixed in with Daumier, Pissarro, Manet, Cézanne and van Gogh, these spokesman for central Europe make up a display of the kind that one might with luck have found in an enlightened Viennese household before the Nazis marched in. It can be seen from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. today and tomorrow and Wednesdays to Fridays, through Dec. 28. For Children Please Touch PLEASE TOUCH DEMONSTRATION, given in a reproduction of a 17th-Century Dutch room, furnished with antiques, Saturday at 2:40 P.M., at the Museum of the City of New York. Fifth Avenue at 103d Street. Admission $1; adults must be accompanied by a child. Call 534-1672 Music CHILDREN'S CONCERT, with Maria (Sonia Manzano) of Sesame Street, who will narrate Saint-Saens "Carnival of the Animals," Sunday at 4 P.M. The program by the Bloomingdale Chamber Orchestra, at the Symphony Space 2537 Broadway at 95th Street. Admission: children, students and the elderly, $1.50; others $3. Call 663-6021 SEA SONG CONCERT AND NAUTICAL STORIES, by The X-Seamen, Sunday at 2 P.M., at the Seamen's Church Institute, 15 State Street, opposite Battery Park. Admission $2. Call 343-9575. THE BONEWORKS ENSEMBLE, a concert with Bill and Mary Buchen, featuring original instruments like the bamboozle, elk harp, giant earth bow and water drum, Friday at 7 P.M. at the Market, Citicorp Center, 53rd Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues. The group will present a workshop on Saturday from 11 A.M. to 1. P.M., (adults, 1 to 5 P.M.), showing how the instruments are made. Free. Film BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, (1971; 117 minutes), a Walt Disney film, Saturday and Sunday at noon, at the Films for Young People Program, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, Museum admission: children 75 cents, students $1.50 and adults $2.50. Call 956-2648. Plays ISLE OF THE SEAL, written and directed by Leslee Asch, with actors and puppets, presented by the Theater of the Open Eye, Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 P.M., at the Theater of the Open Eye, 316 East 88th Street. Admission: children, $2.50; adults, $3. Call 534-6363. AUNT WILLIE PAYS A CALL, a comedy about a mystical aunt whose visit turns a family's life upside-down, written by Shauneille Perry, Saturday and Sunday at 3 P.M., at the Henry Street Settlement Louis Abrons Arts for Living Center, 466 Grand Street. Tickets: children, 25 cents, adults, $1.25. Call 766-9334. A CIRCUS MAXI-US, by the Alonzo Players, about six zany circus animals lost in the woods, Friday at 7:30 P.M., Saturday and Sunday at 3 P.M., at the group's theater, 33 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. Admission: children $2, adults, $3. Call 522-3636 Puppets and Magic GUIGNOL AND THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER, by Roman Paska Puppets, Saturday at 1:30 P.M., at the Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue at 103d Street. Admission: $1.50; children under 5 must be with an adult; children under 3 not admitted. Call 534-1672. KING LEAR, by the Bread and Puppet Theater, and a short marionette show. "The Golden Shoe," Friday through Sunday at 8 P.M., at the Ninth Street Theater, 309 East Ninth Street. Contribution, $2.50. Call 673-8464. RAGGEDY ANN'S VARIETY SHOW, by the Michael Pollack Marionettes, Saturday at 2 P.M., at the First Moravian Church, Lexington Avenue at 30th Street, Admission, $2. Call AL 4-9074. PHYLLIS A. EHRLICH