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It AvvVWvvv 'P 4 4 iif iCeliebmteJiheWeekemlQn LONG ISLAND Special Weekend Rates good Friday through Sunday 1 sj I 4 I I i i 1 It 8 OVAKT I ji i 4f 1 from hilB iSl pnoa fm tmm Hi mhMmi aki WU an MjHl 'Universai Hoth si Charles Dana The American Girl pen and ink on paper HOWARD JOHNSON plainvifw plaza HOTEL tCfl Cn Plainview NY 11803 09 DUPr 514)349100 Vahd thru In-room Suamhath will Whirlpool I I 'HU HOWARD JOHNSON JERICHO LODGE 5060 120 Jericho Turnpike Jericho NY 11753 pout (516)333-9700 ln-roofn Stcamhaih with Whirlpool Vahd thru MH3 HOWARD JOHNSON COMMACK Spirits of an Exhibition Past LODGE 5060 450 Moreland Rd Commack NY 11725 piMt (514)864-8120 lo-raooi Suaaibalh with Whirlpool Valid thru MM By Karin Lipson HOWARD JOHNSON HUNTINGTON Jericho Turnpike Uiitington NY 11746 1 Huntington LODGE 5060 270 (516) 421-3900 NOT EXACTLY Phantom of the Op-El but there are spirits of a sort haunting -mL the cavernous 69th Regiment Armory this weekend the spirits of the landmark art show held at the same armory that rocked the foundations of American art in 1913 Those spirits have been dexterously invoked this week for at the an international assemblage of dealers that runs through Sunday at the Bite on Lexington Avenue and 25th Street Vabd thru liwoun Stcambath with Whirlpool J'IBS gk been lost on the exhibitors of at toe idea of the 75th anniversary just tickled me beyond said Rachel Adler a New York dealer whose booth highlights Russian avant-garde artists of the teens and including the Constructivist El Lissitzky She was also drawn to the armory Adler said not associated with boat shows and houseware Those sentiments were echoed by other dealers is the first serious fine arts exposition in New York no doubt about said contemporary art dealer Ivan Karp whose Harris gallery was one of the first to join toe ranks of exhibitors In toe past he added of the dealers in New York have such a venture that New York in itself is an exposition But had a wonderful Not surprisingly for a show linked historically to art of the early 20th Century at the has a goodly share of booths specializing in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist work or in early American and European modernism There are however also contemporary dealers such as OK Harris Alexander Milliken the Kouros Gallery the Shippee Gallery and the Scott Alan Gallery all of New York and the Galerie La-vignes-Bastille of Paris to name just one among numerous European dealers matter how it works out had a wonderful time participating to meet new friends and dealers from across toe country said Ivan Karp might even find some things I might want to Show hours: noon-9: 30 pm today and tomorrow and 11 am-6 pm Sunday Admission is $8 For information call 889-3790 in ilomrmm PRESENTS Tommy Donato Orchestras 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE LIVE BAND SHOWCASE WED FEB 3rd 8:00 PM PROMPT UPDATED LOCATION IMPORTANT: The show adv in Modem Bride Mag has been changed to the Plattduetsche Park FREE ADMISSION the PLATTDUETSCHE PARK 1132 Hemp Tpke Franklin Sq NY Billed as an to the 1913 Armory show on the occasion of its 75th anniversary at the bringB together 52 dealers from the United States and Europe who are exhibiting and selling paintings drawings watercolors prints and sculpture from the late 19th Century to the present According to both the organizer and many of the dealers this is the first such comprehensive show in New York to be devoted exclusively to all the fine arts To set the historical scene a mini-exhibit of paintings that were actually in the 1913 armory show along with photographs of the lavishly decorated interiors photocopies of bills of sale and price catalogs (anyone for a Van Gogh at $1750?) and some nasty 1913 newspaper cartoons lampooning the modernist trends Browsers among the booths will also find and not by chance a healthy sprinkling of works by some of the foreign and American artists who showed at the armory in 1913 artists ranging from George Bellows Thomas Hart Benton Alfred Maurer Stuart Davis and Charles Sheeler among the Americans to Picasso Braque Leger Vlaminck Rodin and Delacroix to reel off just some of the Europeans The American painter Walt Kuhn a key organizer of the original armory show even gets his own full booth from the Galleries which handle his estate The of 1913 in other words stalk though ever so beneficently throughout this show 1913 part was a cheerfully agreed Sanford Smith organizer of in the as he surveyed the chaos of last-minute preparations before the benefit opening Wednesday night A producer of New York antiques shows who has ventured into toe fine arts with at toe Smith is an ebullient sort who acknowledges the art historical and commercial mix that went into his new enterprise While toe show Smith said a void in toe the 1913 theme helped lure dealers to this fledgling art exposition or not toe references to the 1913 Armory show recall what was indisputably toe most influential art exhibition held to that date and maybe ever in this country Conceived as an antidote to toe prevailing conservative forces in American art toe 1913 armory show brought together some 1300 works of art by more than 300 artists of whom about one-third were foreign Culminating in the Post-Impressionists and the Cubists toe show created a popular and critical sensation though not always in toe positive sense: Some of the art was just too avant-garde for sedate American eyes and such astounding works as Marcel Descending a were jeered and satirized as the product of and Nevertheless or rather because of all the publicity at least 70000 people jammed into the armory to see the show and the face of American art was changed forever The connotations of the 1913 show certainly For Inionaatiaa (718)366-9656 (516)775-0489 SATURDAY' FEBRUARY 13 1988 NEWSDAY FRIDAY JANUARY 29 1968 Weekend17 An Unknown Van Gogh THE HAGUE A PREVIOUSLY unknown painting by Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered in the home of an elderly woman in the northern Dutch town of Groningen an auctioneer said yesterday The painting of a man holding a bouquet of flowers had hung in the living room for years auctioneer Joop van den Enden said The owner whose doctor father acquired toe painting in Rotterdam about 1910 has asked to remain anonymous The seven-inch by 10-inch oil painting is signed in an upper left corner and carries a French inscription on toe back by a Tenege Gustav saying it is an authentic Van Gogh are trying to find out who Tenege Gustav was and have notified all possible interested museums of the painting They can come and see it to decide for themselves if it is an aide to Van den Enden told Reuters The painting which will be auctioned on Feb 15 apparently was painted between Van Brabant and French periods around 1886 according to Van den Enden might bring an interesting amount of he said Paintings by Van Gogh have fetched record prices recently Last November his went for $539 million breaking the $40 million record set in March for his Reuter 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