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Forty-year-old Marchand had had a young girl friend and model whose classic head and swan neck he turned into Picassoid portraits-hammered, twisted, bilious. Then one day-so said Parisian rumor-Picasso had taken Marchand's girl for himself, and put her beauty in a classically simple and straightforward etching (TIME, July...
...Marchand packed up his brushes, went off into the Burgundy woods. Last week he was back in Paris with the result-one of the season's best shows. There was still an element of Picasso in Marchand's painting but there was a lot of Marchand too, and also a strong hint of a new girl...
...Some of Marchand's new paintings, indeed, looked almost like a game of cherchez la femme: his complex, leafy compositions half concealed an ever-recurring nude, as glossy and distorted as a figure on an Etruscan vase...
...neon palette of Marchand's Picasso-period had given way to a cool palette of forest hues: grey-green, apricot, lavender, smoky-blue. Marchand now talks violently against Surrealism ("It's good only for decorating the windows of American butcher shops") and believes that French painting is about to leave restless intellectualism and return to nature...
...Marchand eloquently explains the change in his color and composition: "I used to paint mostly on the Mediterranean," he says,"which is a world of fire. But now I have discovered the complexity of the sun seen through the trees, the feel of moss, ferns and mush rooms, the moist wonder of a grey wood in the early morning when the cobwebs are cradling the dew, whereas at the sea you can't get away from the horizontal line. And another thing: where there are lakes and streams in the forest the skies are down in the water...