Carmen Cicero (b. 1926) is now in the midst of his seventh decade at the cutting edge of contemporary art. His early Abstract Expressionist works of the 1950s, collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, and other major museums, later evolved into clearly defined, dreamlike images indebted to Surrealist automatism. In the 1960s, Cicero was one of the first members of the American avant-garde to return to figuration, pursuing,...