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...century mannerists to Britain's Pre-Raphaelites brought back into vogue. But one group-the 19th century French Salon painters, including such luminaries as Cabanel, Meissonier, Bonnat, Baudry and Rochegrosse-has seemed beyond redemption. Until last week when, that is, half in jest, Paris' avant-garde Galerie Breteau dragged out 20 paintings by one of the most ac claimed academicians and popular artists of his time, a man whose very name was an epithet to the impressionists: William-Adolphe Bouguereau...
...tantalizing aspects of the sculpture show that filled the entire Galerie Breteau in Paris last week was that it consisted of only two works. But the two huge sculptures were enough to make bearded little Etienne-Martin, 47, the talk of the Paris galleries. L'Express saw a " 'new wave' of sculpture" and hailed him as "one of the principal inspirers." And the Paris edition of the Herald Tribune said, in critic talk: "His sculpture has the mysterious poetry and ferocity of nature and man at their most elemental." The critics received him so familiarly, in fact...
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