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Interviewed on the radio, the assistant mayor of the Riviera town of Aix-en-Provence confidently brushed aside a question that was very much on the minds of local art lovers. An Aix museum had on display a major Cezanne show of 22 oils, 19 watercolors and 19 drawings. In view of the successful burglary over Bastille Day weekend of 57 canvases from the Municipal Museum in nearby St. Tropez, were the authorities concerned that the Cezannes might be stolen? "Not at all," said the assistant mayor. "In Aix we have armed guards." Thirty hours later, eight of the Cezannes...
...rest of France was not so enthusiastic. He was rejected as a candidate to do a monument to Novelist Emile Zola. Aix-en-Provence commissioned a monument to his beloved Cézanne, then refused to accept the finished statue, a reclining nude. Even when Maillol found a sympathetic patron, Count Harry Kessler, art adviser to the German Kaiser, it turned out badly. World War I broke out, and the French angrily concluded that Maillol was pro-German, dismissed his beautiful nudes as so many plump Fräulein...
...before his death in 1944, by the wittily ironic, aromatically pessimistic author of The Madwoman of Chaillot and Tiger at the Gates. It is a suavely chill farewell -a glass of iced champagne held in almost as cold a hand. Called Pour Lucrece in French, it offers-in the Aix-en-Provence of 1868-variations on the old tale of the violated Roman matron who, after bidding her family avenge her, committed suicide. It opens in the best Giraudoux style of artificial high comedy. The ultra-pure wife of Aix's overrighteous new judge, by cutting dead everyone involved...
...four months he worked in solitude. "It is going badly," he would tell friends at his favorite café in Aix. "It is this salaud Velásquez. If at least he was an intelligent painter. But no, it is Velásquez, with all that implies of everything and of nothing...
Earle's scholarly interest in existentialism took form in 1947, when he spent a year studying under Gaston Berger, a leading European phenomenologist. Existentialism was "very much in the air" in Europe at that time, and Earle went on to receive his degree from the University of Aix-Marseilles in 1948. Before going to France, he studied at the University of Chicago. "I studied in the classical tradition," he comments. "Chicago is a fine place for that sort of scholarship, but it does not have a very creative atmosphere...