European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Exhibits Europe holds Art treasures from Africa of Raf casert associated press Long Ufler i Olex Hibit demons Ralei private collectors liiivt1 had fils sumo Art works have i turned Home from fair mar Powers but it been More n trickle Ihan Ilin flow 1h.it african wanly in. Fiir Lars and i lie Intel let tints Piru a inv very Der mid. Of its til,1 pieces Asir jury Nirta i Tam Var this i i in it tiits s i Lipil ii nov t filled Arl had ill i if is As fim Jik tit oils. masks Antl Wulp Tim a h irl nil Liral or prot Tdel Funi Zirins. The notion r for if s Ike a novel concept of Africa s Coloni Fri from the moment an object loss its function ii became worthless Bruyning said. Often they rolled in the tropical conditions of were even ritually destroyed. As Art it was Seldom of Europe soon changed . After the objects came to Uron .15 exotic curiosities some f i Irolean in tills created an Active interest by blending the theme into their own works. Also Bruyning said. The objects own Well cared for in Europe. Many Are pleased when they see what has happened with their Art Here Van Cluwe said. They see i As a showcase for their the Uto Lombo a Zibil in Brussels for example hns been endorsed by Zaire s ambassador despite Zaire s Hope of i i wring its Art from Belgium contradictions Are the spice of life most be said. Ally our much african Art is now in Europe and the United Stales Stirks ire still in Africa it curing to Hern Man. What makes it to Fth for Many african nations is sheif museums Are not to handle in lie. Did. Tor one Liling there is the lure of Money. With some pieces fetching hundreds of thousands of dollars at audio in the Weil some irl works limply Disappio in Fiorin african no Iscum experts say. And even when an museum has a first i i option on n, Arl it Utun Zannol afford it. Works from Phillips collection shown in London by Graham Heathcote associated press Laughlin Phillips who grew up in , ,. D.c., in the 1t20s, the pain Lin of Pirn Are aufiiisli1 Renoir Edgar Degas curule Monel Paul Cezanne ant Many others for company. My Falur so much wanted other people to enjoy them that already in 1021, three years before i was Burn he opened two rooms to the Public Phillips . Thai was How our House bime Irie finl museum of modern nil in amerita the Phillips collodion is still tin Public display in the Washington Home his parents my Nero on 21 is Street near Dupont Circle. The collection eventually got so big they find to leave it and move Oul. The qut Landini Assembly of mostly late 19th la Lury and 20th-Century pain links was acquired by Duncan Phillips who inherited wealth rum banking and Slit a anti Liis wife Marjorie who was a Well known landscape and is ill lift Painter. Their son. , now a a tall Ruiel spoken retired , is the director of the collection which now Btl Oasis to a foundation. Seventy six of the 2,000 paintings areal London s Hayward gallery through aug. A and Ihen Foo to Frankfurt and Madrid in the collection s first european show. There have been shows in Australia and Japan. The highlight is Renoir s Large colourful the luncheon of Lite baiting Torolv painted in 1hh1 Afler the artist enjoyed a Good lunch at a River restaurant with convivial chatter and or Coly women. It s Renoir s masterpiece the lines thing he Ever did said the exhibition organiser Catherine Lamport a former washingtonian who now lives in Tendon. She was about 2 years old when her father first took her to see the Phillips collection. The la Ling London show starts with Al Greco in the 1 Folh Century and ends Wilh modern Abs rates by Scully Frank and Lahn Walker. There Are Van cogs a Blue period Pablo Picasso and works by Pierre , Edward i Topper via icily Kandi Nefcy Paul Klee Amedeo , Ciel veins love Momer. Thu. Trustees still acquire pictures but focus mainly on in improving the museum buildings and education h i Rietl by exhibition fees. Phillips Ait lib father became interested in Arl at College. He wrote about the history of Ait and tiled to Inu prel what artists say on their canvases. I k up liter i think because of Hie difficulty of talking Aboul abstract irl Philips . They we us bring new . Home to test them into would Send them Back if they decided against them he recalled. If they decided against them they would go Back to the dealers. My parents had re Mai Kab tas Leand discernment and my father did t follow any fashion and often Paitl just a few Hundred dollars for ,1 artists frequently visited the family. Phillips remembers meeting the famed photographer Alfredl Stieglitz a fierce looking Man with hair growing from his ears and huge Eyebrow and steel glasses Antl adds he expanded my father s Duncan Phillips taste shifted and evolved but he was particularly fond of one painting now at the London show Honore Daumier s the uprising showing a Young Man Arm out Flung in a crowd. U May have been inspired by the 1848 revolution in Paris. Phillips said his father saw in a Symbol of Man s aspirations and my father did t have great wealth hut he fell he had inherited a lot and was going to give it inc i through his museum Phillips mid. His father a so painted for a while he Well into rages when he could t get the color mix he could see in his mind. He Pul Oil paints on top of each other Anil they turned to mud it recalled. Dad would take Mother to baseball to the Washington senators he wat died and the so cached. One of her famous paintings is of a baseball Phillips said likes the Way the Hayward has blended american and French pictures. My father loved thai he said. He said there should be no National boundaries in Arl. Art was Independent of nationality. Artists were Kindred spirits who spoke to each other not Only across National boundaries but from Century to 22
