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A New Novel Paints The Artist'

ter to return you to a period
By MAX SHAYE
With your spatula mix 40 years earlier. Duvid
equal amounts of Raphael takes part in both World
Soyer, Francis Bacon and Wars — dealing with Prus-
Ben Shahn. Add a dollop of sian cavalry in one and Vol-
Willem de Kooning and sof- ksturm Nazis in the other.
Duvid, the artist, painted
ten with a portion. of
the cruelty of the world he
Amadeo Modigliani.
Result: Duvid Karlinsky. knew. Yet he constantly
A long, rich and deeply searched for beauty and
moving novel "The Artist" love. His first great affair
(Norton & Co.), by Norman was with an actress. Disil-
Garbo, is the story of "the lusioned, he _turned to a
fist great Jewish- prostitute whom he mar-
American painter, Duvid ried. Finally, in his later
years, after anguish and
Karlinsky."
The story begins with a trials which included a ter-
bloody Cossack pogrom in rifying experience in the
zarist Russia in 1895. To Sacco-Vanzetti case, he
e reader, the graphic de- meets Laurie, a young
scription of this horror may woman with whom he fi-
seem like something re- nally finds the peace and
served for the Nazi era 50 warmth of an enduring love.
From here, the book
years later. Somehow, the
term "pogrom" has become rapidly proceeds to a
dulled' over the years as brutalizing and shattering
some sort of sexual prank of climax.
drunken soldiery of the
Norman Garbo is him-
past. Not so. This book sets self an artist with some
its right. Russian cossacks impressive painting cre-
were no gentler, if less sci- dentials. In this book, his
entific, than Nazi storm fifth, he displays his vir-
troopers.
tuosity by his brilliant
The Karlinsky family portrayal of his char-
comes to our golden acters. They are de-
shores in the fetid hold of -scribed in great detail
an immigrant ship — in and depth, each coming
itself a baptismal experi- vibrantly alive in his
ence of great trauma: pages.
Describing Duvid's feel-
There, on the lower east
side of New York, the ings when he wishes to show
richness of family life a painting to Laurie, Garbo
exists side by side with writes, "He decided to show
the _violence and struggle it to Laurie when it was al-
of tearing an existence most finished. Or perhaps it
out of a hostile and was finished. It was always
hard to know exactly when
rapacious environment.
a painting was done. No
We follow Duvid in his warning bell ever rang, no
long triumphant struggle curtain came down, no door
for acceptance as a painter closed."
in an era that was still
"Maybe, he thought,
showing disdain and indif- every painting really
ference to the art of the needed two artists. One to
"Ash-Can" _school and cer- paint it, the other to drag
tainly was not ready to ac- the first away when it was
cept Jewish artists who time. For there was always
painted what they saw in that terrible fear of letting
the ghetto. Duvid's first go, that need to add, to take
show is put on for him by the away, to change, to pat, to
big-hearted (weren't they comfort, that dread of send-
all?)._ madam of a brothel. ing the infant thing forth,
She had to blackmail a critic_ naked and vulnerable in to
to cover the show.
the -cold places of judg-
The book is written in a ment."
series of flash-backs, an
The harrowing climax of
interest device, albeit frus- this book explodes into a
trating at times. The author vivid blast of color and pas-
brings you to a climactic sion. Garbo, the painter and
situation and ends the chap- the writer, did' his work

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