The 51 Tones Of Green

October, 1958

The 51 Tones of GreenYou remember when Epstein's Adam was shown a few years ago," Palmer said. "People who had never been in a gallery before mobbed the place to see it. And when the Whitney had that Larry Rivers portrait of a man and his wife, nude in front of a crumpled bed – I've forgotten who they were, I knew at the time – the same thing happened. The place was crawling with art-lovers who didn't know the difference between a Peterdi etching and a Picasso oil. wandering through th...