Reclining Figure (by Harry Kurnitz) is a comedy about an eccentric and difficult art collector, and his daughter and his dealers and his staff. Offered a fake Renoir. Lucas Edgerton feels for the first time a genuine enthusiasm—rather than mere acquisitive excitement—for a picture; and one of Playwright Kurnitz's twists is that, seeing the boss so jubilantly bamboozled. Edgerton's own cowed, stoogelike expert lacks the courage to enlighten him.
Reclining Figure provides a well-acted catalogue of art-world highjinks, of 57th Street dealers who are chiefly double-dealers, of competitiveness that seems more like conspiracy....
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