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...Alfred Letourner & Marcel Guimbre-tiere, French "Red Devils": the sist riding of Manhattan's Six-Day Bicycle Race, at Madison Square Garden. Second, by a lap lost in the last hour, was a team of French unknowns, Georges Coupry & Michel Pecqueux...
...group of critics emerging from Manhattan's decorous Brummer Gallery last week with the name Marcel Mouillot scribbled on the backs of envelopes, wagered that that name would line up with Depression and the New Hats as a subject of smart dinner table conversation before the year...
...Marcel Mouillot was born in Paris in 1889 of petit bourgeois parents. Never having lived near the sea his great ambition was to be a sea captain. He fought through the War, emerged in 1918 seriously gassed. A Mlle Berthe Weill who ran a little gallery on the Rue Lafitte took him up. He had a little success, but made no money. Last year he had a chance to do the thing he had always dreamed of. He shipped on a freighter out of Marseilles for a cruise in the Indian Ocean. Four days out the ship was wrecked...
...Marcel Mouillot spent a month painting the desert, the Egyptian villages. Then he shipped East again. In a hurricane in the Indian Ocean he was nearly swept overboard, had one foot seriously injured. He spent weeks on the little known island of Reunion in the South Indian Ocean and explored the islands off Madagascar in a pirogue. Last May he was back in Paris and held his first important one-man show. Critics, especially M. Brummer, enthused...
...painter Marcel Mouillot's color is almost as brilliant, his draughtsmanship almost as good as the meticulous Pierre Roy, but his subjects are different-not bits of ribbon, seashells or birds' eggs. He paints ships, omitting rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms. He does landscapes of jagged tropical mountain ranges, coral-robed natives under tattered banana fronds, and the steel grey lattice work of cranes against a smoky sky. One of his most effective canvases, Trois Mats le Jeanne d'Arc, shows the trim white hull of the Joan of Arc moored...