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...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...
...Critic Soby was a sophomore at Williams College when he bought his first work, a reproduction of a print by Maxfield Parrish showing a nude girl seated "on a swing over an Arcadian terrace." Next he turned to the "big three'' of the time: Picasso. Matisse and Derain. Much as he admired these artists, Soby was not a man to stick with the crowd for long. His collection grew in no one direction, wandered gently over the face of modern art with his affections and consistent good taste to lead...
...when he came down next morning, the walls of his dining room were bare. "We've been robbed!" he screamed, as his wife and mother burst into tears. Gone were three Braques, three Légers, a Picasso, Modigliani, Buffet, Dufy, Miró, Matisse, Bonnard, Utrillo, Valadon, Laurencin, Derain, Bazaine, Pascin and a Rouault...
Died. Jean Puy, 84, French painter who, with Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Braque, launched the style of vivid colors and simplified shapes, created such a scandal at the famed 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition that they were dubbed Les Fauves (the wild beasts); in Roanne, France...
This decision set up a cultural clamor. Feelings were heightened by the action of the divorced wife of Painter Andre Derain, who, suing for her share of the "community of goods," had sequestered Derain's studio and denied him access to a painting he was still working on. As sometimes happens in France, popular feeling outweighed the rigidities of law. Last week a court of appeal in Orleans reversed the decision of the Court of Cassation, handed down a final verdict awarding Bonnard's property to his own heirs...