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William Baziotes at Joseph Helman. (New York).(Brief Article)

From: Art in America  |  Date: 2/1/2002  |  Author: McDonough, Tom

A selection of almost 40 works on paper offered a concise overview of the career of Abstract Expressionist painter William Baziotes (1912-1963). The retrospective began with a few works of the 1930s: the earliest, somewhat mawkish pieces evoke Chagall and the image of the artiste maudit, as in an untitled multicolored head (1932-33) and in Clown (ca. 1938). Their elegant, calligraphic line and easy lyricism would be precisely what Baziotes set himself to dismantle toward the end of ...

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