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...surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game of pick-up-sticks...
...show, crammed with more or less competent studies of tired nudes, slick portraits and landscape reminders of pleasant vacations. Instead of the rose-covered cottages and shady elms in similar U.S. landscapes, there were purple-shadowed chateaux and blue and green glimpses of the Cote d'Azur. Roger Chapelain-Midy (45) had contributed an end-of-holiday picture that was one of the hits of the exhibition. Entitled The Month of September, it was a subtle yet straightforward portrait-done in the rich, muted colors of honey and white grapes-of a girl sitting in a walled garden with...
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