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...though he quickly became disgusted with his classes at the School of Fine Arts ("I painted more apples than Cézanne. This was the time of the apple, a period in which we wasted our time"), he found impressive support on the outside. Gauguin encouraged him; Vuillard, Bonnard and Matisse became his lifelong friends...
...last, he changed nothing of his habits and never lost his great sense of humility. He was the most complete human being of our century, but he never really knew who he was. Perhaps that was his force. Several days before he died, he said to me, 'Ask Bonnard when you see him if he thinks I've made progress. Last time he was here, he didn't say a word...
...eleven, Balthus showed the poet some drawings he had made of a pet cat that had suddenly disappeared. The poet was so enchanted that he wrote a little text to accompany the drawings, and in time they were published in a little book. Artist friends of the family-Bonnard, Derain, Vuillard-encouraged the boy and even gave him lessons. By the time he was 28, Balthus was an established painter in his own right...
...before seen in the U.S. share and contribute to the gentle aura that pervades the whole. Cubist Georges Braque calmly analyzes an end table littered with fruit and knick-knacks in a brown and green oil lent by Art Patron Mrs. Louise Smith. Industrial ist Alex Lewyt lent Pierre Bonnard's landscape of a country byway. Former Ambassador John Hay Whitney contributed Vuillard's rosy-hued canvas of a young woman relaxing at her embroidery...
...collection ranges from the Norwegian Edvard Munch to Canada's Pollock-like abstract expressionist, Jean-Paul Riopelle. Bonnard. Villon, Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Poliakoff and Rouault are all represented. One of Paul Klee's best-known works. Seven O'Clock over the Roofs, looks like a toy town built with brown and greenish blocks. Oslo had never seen a finer group of Juan Crises, nor had it been exposed to Surrealist Max Ernst...