William Baziotes at Joseph Helman. (New York).(Brief Article)
From: Art in America
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Date: 2/1/2002
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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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