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Through half a century Paul Gauguin has become increasingly famous as a painter of genius who invented a unique style. In that same period Emile Bernard has languished in the shadow as a second-rate symbolist. But back in the 1880s it was Bernard, at 20, just half Gauguin's age, who led the older man beyond impressionism and guided him toward the style that now defines him. Bernard was painting like Gauguin before Gauguin himself...
...Gauguin, Dufy, Vlaminck. Their masterpieces split the gloom of the gallery with a luminosity that never glowed from any canvas that had been brushed with paint. They were not paintings, but transcriptions of paintings done in a new technique -and there were signs that they might be here to stay...
...oils 25 years ago (after Little Caesar), when his Hollywood salary jumped from $1,000 to $7,000 a week. Among his prize canvases were Corot's L'ltalienne, Ceézanne's The Black Clock, and masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Matisse, Renoir, Gauguin, and almost every other major French painter of the past half-century. When the collection became notable, Robinson opened his Hollywood home to the public. In recent years it was also exhibited around the country at some of the nation's best museums...
...Soviet Russia's storehouse of modern art, still largely hidden away in the storerooms of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum? Answer last week from a man with firsthand knowledge: "The Hermitage has the greatest collection of Picassos before 1914, and the greatest collection of Matisses anywhere. Its Gauguin collection is by far the greatest in the world. In Cézannes, it is second among institutional collections only to the Barnes collection in Merion, Pa. And it has three first-rate Rousseaus. The Van Goghs are excellent. From the period of say 1885 to 1914, its pictures are magnificent...
...Dealer Henry Kahnweiler, "I would send Shchukin a telegram. He generally arrived in Paris within a fortnight." Shchukin's rococo 18th century palace in Moscow was packed with art, including eight Cezannes, three Renoirs, 16 top Derains, 50 Picassos, Degas' Dancers in Blue, Matisse's Music, Gauguin's What! You are jealous? and Rousseau's Tropical Forest (see color pages...