"In 1974, the picture
and the sofa cost about
$1,500 each.

What do you t hink
they're worth today?"

— Albert Scagliorte, Parky4st Gallery

exotic trees to Paris.
Albert Scaglione, founder
of Park West Gallery, often
visits Mr. Altman in Paris,
where he says he has watch-
ed the artist work tirelessly
on a picture until every
detail is perfect.
Mr. Altman spends about
four months each year in
Paris, the rest in Penn-
sylvania. His works are in
collections at the Museum of
Modern Art, the Smithso-
nian Institute, the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts and
the Victoria and Albert Mu-
seum of London. He has pro-
duced more than 700 prints
and held exhibitions in
Japan, France, England and
Peru.
"It's very encouraging
when you know what you've
done is appreciated," Mr.
Altman says. "It makes you
want to do better and do
more."
Mr. Altman begins his
work by making a sketch or
photograph — sometimes of

.

a real site, sometimes a vi-
sion from his imagination —
which he calls "my point of
departure." Then he begins
to draw, "the pencil tripping
over the page until the work
comes alive."
His pictures are printed in
Paris at L'Imprimerie Des-
jobert on the same 100-year-
old presses used on the
works of Picasso, Chagall,
Braque, Miro and Matisse.
Among the cities and
countries that have inspired
Mr. Altman are Japan.
Washington, D.C., and his
hometown New York, where
he used to eat malteds as
colorful as the works he now
creates.
"I remember when I was a
boy I used to eat all kinds of
malteds for a nickel; I even
had pineapple and root beer
malteds," he says. "I wanted
to try everything in life.
"Of course I've yet to go to
Miami, and I don't think I'll
ever want to." El

WEEK OF
AUG.24 - AUG.30

ART SHOWS

ATRIUM GALLERY
113 North Center,
Northville, Cindy Fields
McMahon, paper
sculpture, through
August, free, 349-4131.
FEIGENSON
PRESTON GALLERY
796 N. Woodward,
Birmingham, "New
Work," through Sept. 8,
free, 644-3955.
ROBERT KIDD
GALLERY
107 Townsend Street,
Birmingham, summer
group exhibition,
paintings, through Sept.
5, free, 642-3909.
DANIET PELEG
GALLERY
4301 Orchard Lake, West
Bloomfield, Peter Max
exhibit, through August,
free, 626-5810.
HABATAT
GALLERIES
32255 Northwestern
Highway, Farmington
Hills, Jose Chardiet and
Bohumil Elias, through
August, free, 851-9090.
DIA
Detroit Institute of Arts,
"Helen Frankenthaler: A
Paintings Retrospective,"

through Sept. 2,
admission, 833-7963.
CRANBROOK
Cranbrook Academy of
Art Museum, 500 Lone
Pine Rd., Bloomfield
Hills, "Mulles as Mentor
— The Work of Cranbrook
Sculptors: 1931-1951,"
through Sept. 9, free,
645-3323.
TROY ART GALLERY
755 W. Big Beaver,
Summer Kaleidoscope,
paintings, graphics and
ceramics, through Aug.
31, free, 362-0112.
CITY GALLERY
13615 Michigan Ave.,
Dearborn, "Urban
Interiors: Photographs
and Interviews on
Detroit's East Side",
through Aug. 30, free,
577-2150.
PRINT GALLERY
29203 Northwestern
Hwy., Wearable art by
Michael Smith through
Oct. 15, posters of
Columbian artist
Fernando Botero, through
Oc.t. 17, free, 356-5454.
OAK PARK LIBRARY
13600 Oak Park Blvd.,
Oak Park, sculptures by
Richard Pruckler, to Sept.
15, free, 548-7230.

"The Chagall lithograph is now worth
$54,000. The sofa? Perhaps a few hundred
dollars. Of course, not every work of art will

appreciate so dramatically. That's why so many
people come to us. Just as an interior designer
helps you put together the right environment,

.

we help you build an art collection. And it
doesn't have to be expensive. You could easily
collect an appreciable work of art for under
$1,000 . . . See for yourself. Visit the gallery. It's
not at all intimidating. In fact, it's quite
comfortable . . . Like your favorite sofa?'

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Dedicated to the appreciation of art.

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