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Died. Charles Despiau, 72, French sculptor, pupil of famed Auguste Rodin, sponsor during the Nazi occupation of Hitler's third-rate court sculptor Arno Breker; in Paris...
Vlaminck, Derain, Segonzac and Despiau were not exhibiting. They belonged to the Groupe du voyage à Berlin (the group that traveled to Berlin). Conspicuously absent non-collaborators were Dufy (frail but still painting in Perignan) and Rouault (secluded in Brittany...
...Painters Andre Derain, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon Friesz, and Sculptor Charles Despiau were in disgrace as collaborationists...
...went for $360-though its Paris price ten years ago was around $30. The collection was a market sensation from Derain to Dufy, from Rouault to Renoir. It was strongest in works by Crowninshield's old friends, French Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest price of the auction was $7,250 for de Segonzac's vigorously painted French riverside with a church in the background, L'Eglise et La Marne, Champigny. Another notable price was $2,100 for Jules Pascin's Girl in Green and Rose (see cut), a smoldering...
...sculptors (some of them formerly listed by Hitler's Kulturkammer as "degenerate artists") were touring and lecturing in Germany as guests of the Third Reich. The guests: Painters Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cornelius van Dongen, Othon Friesz, Sculptors Paul Maximiliaen Landowski, Charles Despiau. Notably not there was the name of pre-war Paris' greatest painter, bulky Spanish-born Pablo Picasso, who presumably had had the guts to decline the invitation...