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24 Der kleine Holzelefant 1940, silkscreen, 24 x 20 Switzerland U.S.A. and Canada
in., by Otmar Alt at Thomas, 8 Munich 22, Maxi- 27 Still life 1932, oil on canvas, 25+ x 21 in., by 29 Landscape at Céret 1920, oil on canvas, 24 x 32
milianstrasse 25, until the end of April. Ben Nicholson at Beyeler, Basle in a retrospective of in., by Soutine in the first comprehensive U.S.
25 Die gescheiterte Bark 'Hoffnung' 1967, oil his work from April 12 until the beginning of June. exhibition since 1950, at Los Angeles County
painting, 23+ x 27+ in., by Manfred Bluth at Gerda Ben Nicholson was born in 1894, son of the Museum of Art. In a catalogue note Jack Tworkov,
Bassenge, 1 Berlin 15, Kurfurstendamm 206, until English painter Sir William Nicholson. He studied at the artist, says: 'I have no recollection of my first
April 4. Manfred Bluth, born in Berlin in 1926, the Slade School of Art; between 1911 and 1918 encounter with Soutine's work. I must have known
studied at an art school in Berlin from 1942-44 and he visited Tours, Milan, Madeira and Pasadena. In about Soutine by the early thirties. I recall an exhibi-
in Munich from 1947-50. His first exhibition was 1922 he exhibited at Adelphi, London, and in 1923 tion of French moderns in the Museum of Modern
held at Springer, Berlin in 1954. In 1964 he learned at Patterson, London with Winifred Nicholson, his Art where I saw for the first time Soutine's Beef. I
the technique of lithography; the next year he first wife; in 1932 at Arthur Tooth, London with thought then (I don't recall the year) that it was the
produced 52 prints to illustrate a new edition of Barbara Hepworth, his second wife. He was the best and the most powerful painting in the exhibition.
Moby Dick, which was published in Germany and first winner of the Guggenheim Award. It made everything else look too decorative.
America. 28 Exect 1965. by Friedrich Werthmann at Semiha 'In the thirties Soutine was popular with and
Huber, Talstrasse 18, Zurich until April 28. Born in influenced a number of social realist painters—among
Sweden 1927 in Wuppertal, Werthmann has taken part in them Jack Levine. The advanced painters that I met
26 Filmposter for Potemkin 1926 (Moscow), by many group shows and has held one-man shows in on the WPA project leaned mostly towards Cubism,
Anton Lawinskij in an exhibition of 'The Language of several galleries in Germany, and at Hamilton in Lon- Constructivism and Surrealism. Mondrian was be-
Revolution' at Moderna Museet, S. Blaisieshammen don. ginning to be a great influence. In the late forties the
16 Stockholm, until April 28. The exhibition shows rise of Abstract Expressionism with some roots in
Communist posters from all parts of the world. Surrealism and in Freud was a rebellion against
Cubism, Constructivism, geometric painting and