Word: rouault
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends have brought the world of art. In the Knoedler Gallery the first selection from the fabulous collection of Ambroise Vollard ever to leave France went on exhibition. Farther down the street Artist Henri Matisse's art-dealing son Pierre proudly showed 20 sombre impressive canvases by Georges Rouault, the largest single showing of his oil paint ings ever held. Hulking, testy Ambroise Vollard was born in the Isle de la Reunion southeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, went to Paris over half a century ago to study law. He was an indifferent lawyer...
...Impressionists grew old and died. Fifi Vollard remains the last survivor of their circle, proud of the fact that he discovered and pushed a whole new circle of artists (now middleaged) to take their place: Picasso - he bought his first "Blue Period" Picasso in 1901 - Derain, Bonnard, Vlaminck, Rouault. Of the lot it was Georges Rouault who became Fifi Vollard's closest friend. Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection of the Com mune of 1871. As far as anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice in a stained...
Fifi Vollard lives today with his cat (see cut) in a huge house on the RuedeMartig-nac whose first floor shutters are never opened. Artist Rouault has a locked studio on the top floor from which Fifi for all his blustering is rigorously excluded. They lunch and quarrel together nearly every day, but not even Fifi Vollard knows where Georges Rouault lives. He receives all his mail and makes all his appointments at No. 14 Rue de La Rochefoucauld which is the Gustave-Moreau Museum of which he is curator. Neither his stately wife, Marthe Le Sidaner who paints very...
...even Georges Rouault knows the 'name of Fifi Vollard's cat, a testy 12-year-old alley torn whose great ambition is to get into the room where the Cézannes are kept. Frustrated in this he generally dashes for the dining room and claws angry gashes in the leather seats of the ponderous Empire furniture. Fifi Vollard does not mind for he has two dining rooms, one to exhibit his furniture and another smaller closet off the kitchen where he is apt to retire and munch raw peaches while would-be purchasers are left alone...
...Matisse group, called in derision Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), included André Derain, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon Friesz...