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Portrait of Felix Fénéon 1890, oil on canvas,
30 x 38 in. by Paul Signac in an exhibition of
Neo-impressionism at the Guggenheim Museum,
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York until April 8. This
exhibition is the first full re-valuation of a move-
ment that exerted an important influence on
subsequent trends in Europe and America. The
survey includes 175 paintings, drawings and
watercolours by Seurat, Signac, Delaunay and
Pissarro, among others. Artists from Holland,
Belgium, Germany and Italy are also represented.
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Farmyard 1887, oil on canvas, 24 x 29 in. by Henri
Delavellée from the Guggenheim Museum show
described above.
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Reflection on rear of auto 1967, oil on masonite,
3 x 4 ft by Richard Estes (in his first one-man
show) at Allan Stone, 48 East 86th Street, New
York until March 9.
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Quarry (boy, green towel) 1967, oil and acrylic on
canvas, 50 x 44 in., by Bernard Chaet at Alpha,
121 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts from
March 9 to April 2. Chaet was born in Boston in
1924. He has been teaching in the Department of
Art, Yale University since 1951 and has held one-
man shows at Boris Mirski, Boston, Bertha
Schaefer, New York, Stable, New York and White
Museum, Cornell University. (Price range: $350—
$1,500.)
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Study of two angels 1886, pencil, 6 x 5 in. by John
La Farge from the Winter exhibition at the Toledo
Museum of Art, Ohio. This is a study for the
Ascension mural for the Church of the Ascension,
New York, which was completed in 1887. John La
Farge, born in 1835 was considered by people
living at the end of the nineteenth century, to be
America's most important mural painter and
creator of stained-glass windows. The exhibition
covers the full range of the artist's work including
books and magazine illustrations and designs for
stained-glass windows. Owing to the demand for
and the size of his murals and windows La Farge
had a shop of assistants from 1876 until his death
in 1910.
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Drawing of stage design for 'The magnificent
cuckold', by Luibov Popova from an exhibition of
more than three hundred works 'Plus by Minus:
Today's half-century' at Albright-Knox, Buffalo,
New York from March 3 to April 14. The set, first
used at the Meyerhold Theatre, Moscow in
1922, is being reconstructed in Buffalo as part of
the Second Buffalo Festival of Arts Today. Actual
performances of the play will be presented, using
the 35 ft set. The exhibition, including the work of
ninety artists, provides the largest comprehensive
representation of revolutionary Russian art.

Canada
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Peasant woman, pencil and charcoal, by Vincent
Van Gogh in an exhibition of his drawings at the
National Gallery of Canada.