The gift of 79
excellent Cubist paintings, drawings and sculptures received from Leonard A. Lauder last year, was certainly an opportunity to ponder over the improved structure that would present the existing collection more effectively and lure more donated works of art from collectors and donors.
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?