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...surprise when they saw the garland of new-fangled electric lamps decorating the entrance to the Palais' cellar. When they went down the stairs, they and their escorts found more reason for excitement. On the basement walls hung 990 pictures: oils by Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet and Fėlix Vallotton, a whole wallful of paintings by Paul Gauguin, only six months dead in his Pacific island paradise...
This year the Salon set up a special section in commemoration of its birthday, called Satte 1903. The organizers tried to get together as many as possible of the works displayed in 1903. Among the souvenirs: a Rouault clown and a Tahitian painting by Gauguin. A better showing was made in the section called Hommage aux Ainés (homage to the elders), in which were displayed the works of now-famous artists who have shown at the Salon through the years. Among les Ainés: Matisse, Dufy, Utrillo. Picasso, Vlaminck, Braque, Chagall...
MODERN artists find it easier to express passion than to praise God, and, except for Georges Rouault, they have generally chosen the easier course. But now a lame, grey, and perhaps great artist in Madrid has taken Rouault's high and lonely road. His name: Francisco Cossio. His finest achievement to date: a 20-foot-high mural (opposite) for Madrid's National Carmelite Church. While Rouault's paintings glow with almost painfully intense devotion, Cossio's masterpiece gleams cool and peaceful as a September dawn. Cossio, 54, spent three years on the mural, hopes to finish...
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...congratulate you on your very fine color spread and article on Georges Rouault [TIME, July 27] ... His pictures portray such great feeling, intense emotion and torment within the soul . . . Rouault once said, "Some day I hope to paint a Christ so moving that tLose who see it will be converted...