[11] In the 1940s, she began producing
Cubist figure studies in materials such as stone, bronze, terra cotta, and wood.
Having had the opportunity in recent years to
study a number of excellent exhibitions in which
Cubist paintings have
figured prominently — including the 1980 Picasso exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and the Essential Cubism exhibition recently mounted at the Tate Gallery — may we endorse John Richardson's recent petition in your columns that any
Cubist paintings that are still unvarnished should be left in the state in which their authors intended them to be seen?