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...always kidded young Jack Taylor. He was brash, he was illiterate, he could never keep a steady job. Yet he called himself an artist. A year ago, he was pushing a wheelbarrow on a building job in London's West End. The truck driver pointed at the nearby Redfern Gallery, and jeered at Jack: "You call yourself a painter. They buy paintings in that place...
...once when he quit looking for work to concentrate on painting, she left him until he agreed to go back to work. But he kept stubbornly on, making his own brushes by cutting up a clothes brush. Once, he broke down. "The day I came walkin' into the Redfern Gallery, I felt I couldn't go on much longer...
...Dumont tried to kill his own mother and was committed to an insane asylum in Paris. There, in 1936, he died in poverty, so overshadowed as an artist by his fellow impressionists Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro that the world had already forgotten about him. Last week London's Redfern Gallery threw open its doors to the first showing of Dumont's works outside France, and the long-neglected painter seemed suddenly destined for an amazing revival...
...Back Room. The revival was due to an enterprising New Zealander named Rex de C. Nan Kivell, who runs the Redfern Gallery. In 1938 he had come across a Dumont landscape in the back room of a Paris gallery. It suggested both the influence of Gauguin and a comparable talent. After the war, Nan Kivell set out to find more of Dumont's work; he roamed all over France, picking up paintings from private collections and the homes of Dumont's friends. In ten years, he succeeded in getting together 54 Dumonts for the current show...
Christopher Wood was only 29 when he killed himself in 1930-a bright, charming Englishman who had apparently failed to make the grade as an artist. His mother gave many of Wood's paintings away. A man named Rex de C. Nan Kivell, director of London's Redfern Gallery, quietly bought them up. Last week the Redfern was showing Wood's paintings to admiring crowds, and selling them for as much as ?1,500 apiece...