Word: rouaults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Alfred Maurer fell into revolutionary company. At Gertrude and Leo Stein's famous Saturday evenings, he met some of the pioneers of modern French painting. Around Paris he caught glimpses of the work of les fauves, the "wild beasts"-Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Derain -whose daring compositions and brilliant colors were setting French art on its ear. His own academic interiors and portraits looked drab and uninspired by comparison. In 1904, renouncing his old formal ways, he flirted with impressionism and became the first U.S. artist to follow up the experiments of les fauves...
What Father Couturier could do was partially demonstrated this week in a little church in the village of Assy, which celebrated the formal dedication of two handsome stained-glass windows, portraying Saints Veronica and Martha, by the famed contemporary French painter Georges Rouault. Father Couturier had conceived the idea and asked the artist to carry it out. But busy Dominican Couturier was not present at the ceremonies. He was talking to Painter Henri Matisse about the decoration of a chapel for nuns at Vence...
Most of the big brushes of French painting-Matisse, Braque, Rouault and Dufy-were not competing. Partly to avoid discouraging lesser-knowns, they had not been invited. The situation with regard to the biggest brush of all, Pablo Picasso, was tantalizingly obscure. Somebody (possibly Picasso himself) had signed his name to a list of French artists, most of them Communists, attacking the Marshallizing of French art. At the same time, Picasso had sold reproduction rights for at least one of his paintings, Mother and Child (see cut), to Hall Brothers, Inc. in a private deal last year. On the Riviera...
...rest, he let the paintings speak for themselves, and they did a good job of proving that Bloom, whatever his subject, was a first-rate artist, who could daub color as rich as Rouault's, weave oils over and under each other with an unerring eye, hit his spectators hard with whatever his imagination wanted to get across...
...execution took place in the furnace room of a hat factory. Wearing a grey business suit and black bowler hat, Rouault stood by the open furnace door, tossed each painting singly into the flames. Now and then he would pause to pronounce one of them "not so bad," but in an hour and a half every picture (some worth up to $2,000) was reduced to ashes. Driving back to Paris in his lawyer's black limousine, Rouault looked overcome with gloom. "Bad or not," he said, "they were my children...