“Collector’s Group of Modern Masters”
Paul Kantor Gallery
Alphabetically from Arp to Villon, the exhibition spans this era’s visual chronology through paintings by Rouault, Dufy, Gleizes, Kandinsky, Klee, Picasso, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Bacon, de Stael and de Kooning. To some, the works shown may evade the label “major” because they haven’t been reproduced in historical texts. Yet quality remains the only valid basis for constructing echelons, and from that viewpoint Giacometti’s Stove of 1954 and Picasso’s 1946 gouache Faune are sleight-of-hand productions which would never justify their creators’ stature. A change in estimation might arise from