For four weeks, a show of 18 handsome paintings in Mexico City's tiny Galeria Souza has been the talk of the town and a source of interested buzzing in art centers far above and beyond the border. Critics greeted the show with salvos of praise that made it the biggest Mexican art event since the 1949 retrospective of another painter, Diego Rivera. Paris' Museum of Modern Art Director Jean Cassou fired off an urgent telegram, then flew to Mexico City to see for himself. One Californian sent in his $4,000 check for one painting,...
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