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...paintings from the School of Paris at the spacious old Lefevre Galleries off St. James's Square. Eight Picassos of different periods (he has had eight so far: Realist, Toulouse-Lautrec, Blue, Rose, African, Cubistic, Neo-Classical and Surrealistic) were surrounded by canvases by Bauchant, Bonnard, Braque, Dali, Derain, Dufresne, Dufy, La Fresnaye, Leger, Lurçat, Matisse, Miro, Modigliani, Pascin, Redon, Rousseau, Rouault, Segonzac, Soutine, Utrillo, Vuillard...
...example, suggest their potentialities as sadists, lechers and wretches as clearly as their childish charm. If this austere originality appears incapable of lightness, even morbid, most visitors last week conceded its maturity and credited it with at least one painting of extraordinary power-a portrait of Artist André Derain...
...dark-haired man with a pale, pointed face and sharp eyes, Balthus is married to a Swiss girl, lives in a studio apartment on Paris' Cour de Rohan. He is a close friend of Author Andr éGide and, in spite of his frightening portrait, admires André Derain above all modern artists...
...socialite sponsors for the benefit of the public Education Association of New York, it was correctly entitled "Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism." In the lofty, skylit galleries of Wildenstein & Co. visitors saw 48 selected masterpieces by Cezanne, Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Marie Laurencin, Matisse, Derain, Pascin, Picasso, Modigliani. Visitors who regarded any of these reputations as unfounded were quickly disabused...
Gershwin became fascinated with painting in the late 1920s. He began by buying pictures that appealed to him, works by Picasso, Rouault, Derain, Utrillo and by his friends Max Weber and Maurice Sterne. By 1933 his collection was big enough to rate an exhibition at the Chicago Arts Club. Gershwin himself started painting in 1929 and came along fast with a few tips and encouragement from his artist cousin, Henry A. Botkin. He liked to paint so much that in the year or two before his death he actually preferred it to composition at the piano, even thought of giving...