Art: Mexico's Chucho

Mexico City's No. 1 doodler last week found himself the center of an artistic cult. Tall, wrinkled Chucho Reyes (pronounced Choocho Ray-ez) is a 58-year-old antique dealer and former art teacher who claims he knows nothing whatever about painting technique ("I don't paint—I just mess up paper").

U.S. tourists buy Reyes' bright, fantastic watercolors almost as fast as he turns them out. Chief U.S. collector is Beautician Helena Rubinstein, who owns over 100 doodles. There are two Reyes works in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.

Chucho Reyes quickly covers big sheets of Chinese paper...

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