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...unnecessarily announcing himself as a non-social painter, Victor de Pauw displayed 30 paintings at the Charles Morgan Gallery. Most were good & alive, though many were over facile. A great source of vitality to Artist de Pauw: circuses, and especially clowns. Unlike his great predecessor in this field, Toulouse-Lautrec (see below), Artist de Pauw composes better than he draws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Summer's Fruits | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...definitive biography. Painstaking and fully documented, it presented Cezanne as a great intuitive inventor in the art of painting; and its sympathetic account of the artist's crotchety life cleared the air of much second-rate chatter. Biographer Mack's new subject is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa,* who died of drink and exhaustion in 1901, aged 36, the greatest French master of line between Daumier and Picasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Life of Lautrec | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Most important single fact about Toulouse-Lautrec is that both his legs were broken and stopped growing when he was 14. His noble father, Count Alphonse, who was interested mainly in falcons and thoroughbred horses, promptly lost interest in Henri. Among the best things in Gerstle Mack's book are excerpts from young Lautrec's whimsical convalescent letters, a quaint "Zig Zag Journal'1 he kept at 16, his first sassy comments on art exhibitions in Paris. But as Lautrec became mature and bitterly familiar with his deformity, the pleasures of cafe conversation took the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Life of Lautrec | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Died. Suzanne Valadon, 70, noted artist and mother of famed Painter Maurice Utrillo; in Paris. Once a model for Renoir, Lautrec, Degas, she studied under them, later taught her son to paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...long list of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lenten Lights | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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