This exhibition includes two stunning canvases by Christian Title: Village in Portugal and Outskirts—Lyon, also a village scene, with elegant sonorous surfaces. This painter’s cerulean cypresses and madder oaks are the greenest of green trees. There is a stunning group of primitives by a very young artist, Diane Bryer, who is just beginning to show and whose fantastic little paintings will delight many. Among them is a flowered carousel horse, a small oil entitled The Neighbors incisively painted with Ulysses S. Grant furniture motifs. This untaught painter has a lovely imagination and is not a bit afraid to put down more than what she sees. The exhibition further includes a stunning Daumier oil of Carabinieri sleeping with their prisoner on a guardhouse bench, a simple canvas with desiccated apples casting their shadows, and a small painting by Cort Jacobsen, one of the leading Danish impressionists. This is an exquisite four inch square excerpt from the country life of a retired couple and their dog. A Sacha Moldovan Village Scene is strongly reminiscent of Soutine. The painter, who has recently been put under contract, is practically unobtainable.
—Mary Ewalt
