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Proposition to Escape: heart garden 1966, neon hearts
on frame on floor with plexiglass fence and grass,
53 in. x 20 ft, by Martial Raysse, at Alexandre lolas,
in an exhibition 'Oeuvres Récentes'—April 25 to
the end of May. In 1966 Raysse represented France
at the Venice Biennale and won the David E. Bright
prize for artists under forty. Raysse will be
exhibiting in Los Angeles during May and June at
the Dwan Gallery.
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'...My God! But that Man could Play' (from The
Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert W. Service) 1966,
liquitex on canvas, 35 x 45 ⅝ in., by Cply, at Alexandre
lolas, 196 Boulevard Saint-Germain, in 'American
Ballads' until April 22. William Nelson (Bill Copley
born in New York in 1919, began painting as a hobby
in 1946 and in 1957 he was represented at the
exhibition of the Urvater Collection, Rijksmuseum
Kröller-Müller, Otterlo. Some of his exhibitions
include 'W. N. Copley' Hanover Gallery, London,
'Pop Art U.S.A.', Oakland Art Museum, Calif. and
lolas, New York.
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Painting 1965, 28 ¾ x 23 ⅝ in., by Zao Wou-ki at Galerie
de France, 3 Faubourg St. Honoré, from April 5 until
May 21. Born in Peking in 1921, Zao attended the Ecole
National des Beaux Arts at Hangchow for six years
and from 1941-7 was a drawing professor there. In
1948 he left China to go to Paris and in 1957-8
travelled to America, Japan, Thailand and Greece.
Galleries where he has held exhibitions include
Charpentier, Paris, Kootz, New York, Redfern,
London, and La Bussola, Turin.
New York
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Après Mexique 1965, acrylic, 39 x 60 ¼ in., by Pierre
Alechinsky at Lefebre Gallery, 47 East 77th Street,
April 18 to May 14. A member of COBRA together
with Jorn, Appel, Corneille, and Christian
Dotremont in 1949-51, Alechinsky has had one-man
shows at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, the
Gallery Van de Loo, Munich, and elsewhere; his
first New York one-man show was at Lefebre in
1962. Houston (Texas) Museum of Fine Arts is
showing his black-and-white work—drawings and
'encres'—from April 5.
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Portrait Sketch of Mrs. HCK 3 1927, oil transfer
drawing on paper, 14 ¾ x 10 ⅞ in., by Paul Klee in a
retrospective exhibition to April 30 at the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue.
The exhibition of nearly 200 works selected from all
over the world is the most comprehensive Klee
survey ever held in the U.S. Following the
Guggenheim showing, the exhibition goes to the
Kunsthalle, Basel.
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The Costume Party 1965, acrylic on plaster and mixed
media, 72 x 144 x 108 in., by George Segal in an
exhibition of new work at Sidney Janis, 15 East 57th
Street until April 22. Segal's exhibitions include the
Stedelijk Museum's 'American Pop Art', 1963,
Whitney Museum, 1964 Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Sculpture, and Sidney
Janis Gallery, 'Erotic Art '66', 1966.
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New York Wall 1966, oil on canvas, 85 x 138 in., by
Budd Hopkins at Poindexter Gallery, 21 West 56th
Street, April 11-29. Selected by Art News in 1958 as
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