Art.

In the catalogue for the posthumous exhibition of the work of artist Liubov Popova held in the Soviet Union in 1924, six months after she died of scarlet fever at the age of 35, the artist is cited thus: "No artistic success has given me as much satisfaction as the sight of a peasant or a worker buying a length of material designed by me." The syntax of the exhibition of Popova's work on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York until April 23 must be very like that of the Soviet show of 1924. According to the author, the catalogue he began by quoting goes on to say that in the very spring in which she died, "all Moscow, Russia was wearing fabric with designs by Popova without knowing it, vivid, strong drawings, full of movement, like the artist's own nature." According to the author, her paintings all look like pictures of movement that merely aspire to vividness and strength.