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WHICH IS THE ORIGINAL?—Mrs. Beatrice Goldberg compares a reproductionwith the original painting of “The Lovers" by Wolfgang Hutter at the IFAGalleries. (The original is on the wall at right.) Both will be included in the

gallery's “Hi-Fi in Art" exhibit which will open Friday night at the ShorehamHotel in connection with the annual Hi-Fi Fair.

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Art ReproductionsHard to Distinguish

ing it, the artist said angrily,

“Fifteen years ago, I painted

this for a friend. I didn’tthink he would ever part withit!”

The dealer hastened to ex-plain that the framed picture

in his hand was not the orig-

inal Picasso, but a fine repro-duction of it.

Another part of the displaywill show hi-fi painting re-productions and inferior printsof the same subject.

"A great variety of printsare reproduced by differentpublishers with varying de-grees of success,” Mr. Bakerpoints out. "Although thedifference in price is minute,the various prints of the samepainting can be as different asnight and day.”

Included in this exhibit areMatisse's “Still Life—Appleson Pink Tablecloth.” Vermeer's“Milkmaid,” and Gauguin’s“Ta Matete.” The inferior VanGogh print, Mr. Baker notes,loses much of the soft, subtlecolor qualities which remainin the hi-fi reproduction,while ih the Matisse, thbmodeling and structural qual-ity is lost in the inferior print.

The third part of the dis-play will show “Hi-Fi at LowCost,” a group of good repro-ductions being made in quan-

By MARY L. VAUGHANCan you distinguish between

an original painting and itsreproduction?

“With modern advances inphotography, platemaking andcolor printing, today's fine artfacsimiles are so faithfullyreproduced as to be almost in-distinguishable from the orig-inal,” Mr. Manuel Baker, di-rector of the IFA Galleries,maintains..To prove the point, he and

codirector. Mr. NormanMayer, are sponsoring anunusual art exhibit at theannual Hi-Pi Pair, openingFriday night in the ShorehamHotel. A display in the exhibitwill feature original paintings

and their reproductions to givevisitors a chance to determinewhich is the genuine article.

Entitled, “Hi-Fi in Art,” theshow is one of a series ofeducational exhibitions on finearts developed by the IFAGalleries, illustrating how thereproduction of great art hasparalleled the reproduction ofgreat music. Later art exhibitswill be set up in Loew’s Capital

; Theater for the enlightenmentof the public.

The hi-fi in art exhibit willbe presented m four parts.

The first a display of fourframed original paintings andfour framed color reproduc-

tions of the same paintings.The paintings were selected

and received awards from the

International Jury at the 27thArt Exhibition shown at theVenice Bienale, and were

chosen by UNESCO to be re-produced as part of its popu-

larization series.The originals are being loaned

through the co-operation of theNew York Graphic Society.

Pointing up the fidelity <ort accurateness'of reproductions,

Mr. Baker relates the tale ofthe noted collector who once

locked a reproduction of a

Renoir water color in his safej and left the original un-

guarded on his desk.Picasso also is said to have

been fooled by a reproduction

of one of his own works. Hisart dealer, so the story goes,

showed Picasso one of hisearly water colors. Recogniz-

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In many cases, customers areurged to take several home totry with their furnishings be-fore selecting one. They rangein prices from 25 cents to S2O.

Messrs. Baker and Mayer,who will be present at all timesduring the exhibit, also canproduce, in their gallery, hun-

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FRAMING—RIGHT AND WRONG— Mr. Norman Mayer, codirector of the IFAGalleries, illustrates correct and incorrect framing in two-color reproductions whichwill be part of the gallery's “Hi-Fi in Art" exhibit. The top print, Robert Phillip's“Girl at Table" in a feminine romontic mood, is framed appropriately. The lowerprint, Utrillo's "Moison Mimi," is a busy, angular painting in a nonromantic mood.The graceful, hand-carved frame conflicts with the feeling of this painting.—Star

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