Art
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PHOTOGRAPHING PICASSO
Eighteen photographs of Pablo Picasso by French photographer Andre Villers are on display at an antiques gallery on the Upper East Side. Mr.Villers began photographing Picasso in the early 1950s at his studio in the south of France. The photographs capture the artist with his children, Paloma and Claude; in a car on his way to a bullfight, and posing in a straw hat and scarf. Picasso was Mr.Villers’s first artist subject. He later photographed Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, and “all the others.” Mr. Villers has written, “The smudges of paint on some of Picasso’s paintings taught me not to be too fussy, not to waste time with formal perfection but to move on to something else.” Through Friday, May 20, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Karl Kemp Antiques Uptown, 833 Madison Ave. at 69th Street, 212-288-3838, free.
OUTDOORS IN BLACK AND WHITE
Nature drawings by Mary Reilly are on display through this weekend at DFN Gallery. In these new representational works, she begins by laying down up to eight layers of graphite as a base. The drawings on view capture close-ups of dandelions being buffeted by the wind, lakeside seashells, and a stand of trees after a snowfall. Most of Ms. Reilly’s previous work has been in portraiture. Through Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., DFN Gallery, 76 Franklin St., between Greenwich and Hudson streets, 212-334-3400, free.
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