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Manhattan gallerygoers were all agog. They read the names Cezanne, Derain, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, all in one announcement. They rushed to the sedate, vermicular-stoned Wildenstein Galleries. There they paid $1 apiece for the benefit of the French Hospital, were permitted last week to maunder through two small rooms hung with 51 modernist French paintings of the first rank. Such a concourse is rare, even among Manhattan opportunities...
Composed entirely of accepted modernist leaders, the exhibition proved that the freakishness of cubism, vorticism, other truculent cults, is quite defunct. There was little that was crude, nothing that was incoherent. Gaugin's bizarre self-portrait seemed to link his face with his own favorite Tahitian fruits; the sardonic humor of the piece was queer but clear. He displayed also a serene Breton landscape, a lovely canvas which could cause no retching among the most conservative. Forain's aphrodisiac The Charleston showed two vibrant white dancers, several paunchy satyr-spectators, was a triumph of contemporary comment. Picasso's The Mother...
...coming to the U. S. to portray Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, together with his wife and four children. The portrait, if typically successful, would doubtless be bright in color, not too careful in detail; it would be possible to recognize in its style the influence of Gaugin and more especially Cezanne. The canvass would be notable for a certain quality of excitement combined with certainty of technique...