Word: derains
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...color orchestration, subtle and convincing." Second prize ($1,000) went to Germany's Karl Hofer for an apathetic picture of three scantily clad males. U. S. Artist Sidney Laufman took the $500 third prize with a pleasant, unexciting Spring Landscape. The Allegheny Garden Club gave André Derain a $300 prize for a vase of roses...
Also in Manhattan last week arrived a surrealist-edited issue of Minotaure ($2.50 a copy), a new artistic & literary French magazine, which one critic called a "public danger." Its cover was by André Derain. It contained an article on ecstasy illustrated by sections of pornographic postcards, reproductions of Braque, Picasso, Matisse, Photographer Man Ray, a discussion of sex symbolism in hats...
...under pompous Père Léon Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse group (Derain, Braque, Rouault, Vlaminck, Friesz), became one of Matisse's most brilliant disciples. Now he lives in a Montmartre apartment painted the same blue he often uses in his skies. Quiet, looking more like a businessman than a painter, he works strenuously, carries a sketch book everywhere, rarely frequents...
...Russian painters, exhibiting their work expensively in St. Petersburg and Paris. He took the Russian Opera and Chaliapin to Paris before he took the Ballet. But the dancers established his reputation with the world. He had Fokine create ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola...
...Laffitte shop. The Impressionists grew old and died. Fifi Vollard remains the last survivor of their circle, proud of the fact that he discovered and pushed a whole new circle of artists (now middleaged) to take their place: Picasso - he bought his first "Blue Period" Picasso in 1901 - Derain, Bonnard, Vlaminck, Rouault. Of the lot it was Georges Rouault who became Fifi Vollard's closest friend. Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection of the Com mune of 1871. As far as anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice...