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...people who make art their business are mostly impostors."-Pablo Picasso...
...Pablo Picasso's joining of the French Communist Party and the attack on his paintings at the Paris Autumn Salon (TIME, Oct. 16) were discussed last week in a Paris cable from TIME'S Correspondent Sherry Mangan. Excerpt...
...Pablo Picasso announced that he had joined the French Communist Party, two days later learned that 15 of his sensationally experimental paintings (on exhibition at the annual Salon d'Automne) had been torn down by a Parisian mob, which fled in true Parisian style before the police could identify anybody...
...circles of three continents have wondered what was happening to the artists in occupied Paris. What had become of the famed Paris School of modern painting branded "decadent" by the Nazis? Was there a new, underground art movement? Were there many new paintings by such modern masters as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse? Last week the curtain was beginning to lift. French-made color reproductions of new work by Matisse, Picasso, Bonard and some younger men had been flown across the Atlantic. The portfolios (called Editions du Chene) established two points: 1) the older artists had done considerable work...
...Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, in his old attic studio in Paris' rue Saint Augustin, surrounded by pictures of blue women with square feet, declared that he had not only refused to collaborate with the Germans, said: "I even annoyed them." Said he: "They forbade my works to be shown because Hitler named me . . . decadent. But simple Nazi soldiers used to visit me. When they left I presented them with a souvenir postcard of my painting Guernica...