Art: Art in New York: Apr. 10, 1964

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MARINO MARINI — Auslander, 1078 Madison Ave. at 81st. Man-on-horse formed Marini: as a youth he admired Donatello's equestrian Gattamelata, as a man he observed Dictator Benito Mussolini. Combining themes, he carved out a lesser heroism: his sculptures show stumbling horses and fearful men. In this show are some of the sculptures, but twelve lithographs, paired with his wife's poetry, and ten oils on paper show a purer image of horse and rider charging, falling, rising again with more courage than their predecessors. Through April 25.

GEORGES BRAQUE. The artistic revolutionary who, with another young firebrand named Picasso created cubism and I altered the course of modern art, died last year at 81. Four galleries bring together the largest showing of his work ever —some 200 paintings and sculptures on loan from American collections and benefiting the Public Education Association. —

> At Saidenberg, 1035 Madison Ave. at 79th: fauve and cubist works. > At Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th: paintings from the '20s. > At Rosenberg, 20 East 79th: oils from the '30s.

— At Knoedler, 14 East 57th: the '40s on through 1957, along with 25 sculptures. All through May 2.

SATISH GUJRAL — Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Gujral once set off from India for Mexico to be a muralist for the masses a la Siqueiros. Having no walls on which to make his metaphors, he fragmented his murals into paintings, has been doing so since (although now he is doing a mural in ceramic for the World's Fair's Indian Pavilion). He shows his mentor's strong sense of design — and a good deal more mystery — in decorative, richly hued paintings. Through April 25.

ROY GUSSOW — Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. The streamlined slabs and slippery surfaces of modern abstracts in stainless steel, forged bronze and copper by a teacher at Pratt Institute who studied under Moholy-Nagy and Archipenko. Most are on loan. Through April 25.

JACQUES VILLON — Thaw, 50 East 78th. Fifteen paintings trace a life-long love affair with art, from a youthful Portrait of the Artist, who had not yet courted cubism, to The Environs of Rouen, when he had wedded it to his own luminous impressionism. Through April 18.

CORNEILLE — Lefebre, 47 East 77th. The shows by Corneille and Appel (see below) are close together and similar in interest. Both are Dutch painters, founders of Cobra, whose styles spring from the explosive spontaneity of that postwar persuasion. Corneille is a little tamer, perhaps because he chooses nature as his forte. His shapes sprawl in the lazy rhythms of an octopus treading water in a bright-colored sea of protoplasmic forms. Through April 18.

GIANFRANCO BARUCHELLO — Cordier&Ek-strom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. New York's first look at this Italian's contribution to the Scribble school. Baruchello zips around Rome with the dash of -a young man going places; in painting he shows more caution. He draws little bugs, squiggles, squooshes on Plexiglas or on translucent white canvases in the vacant perspective of flyspecked windowpanes, makes them move in startling patterns—as though the insect were still buzzing around. Through April 25.