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...buzzing excitement of Paris' Salon d'Automne, two proper Baltimore sisters looked about them aghast. "Surely," said the older, "we are not expected to take this art seriously!" Even the painters -Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Rouault-were unknowns. It was 1905, and for the two Cone sisters. Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta, it was the year of their baptism into a new world...
...market for modern art is booming as never before. Some startling particulars of the boom were ticked off this week by Collector-Critic James Thrall Soby, writing in the Saturday Review: "If the prices for Matisse, Picasso, Rouault and Bonnard have tripled or quadrupled since the war, those of some of their less overwhelming colleagues have soared in far greater proportion ... A Kandinsky costing less than $1,000 in 1930 would now fetch about $8,000; a Mondrian actually bought by an American museum 20 years ago for $400 would be almost $10,000 today . . . Paul Klees, which used...
...these arguments against Manhattan's pre-eminence as an art center mean little. The world's most admired contemporary artists are all old and mostly French. Before World War I, the geniuses of the "School of Paris"-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Dufy, Rouault-mainly admired each other. Paris liked them...
Green Hair. The pure Matisse emerged at Paris' Autumn Salon of 1905. His works were hung in a room apart, with those of some other young rebels named Rouault, Derain and Vlaminck. A critic promptly dubbed them Les Fauves-"Wild Beasts." Never since the Dark Ages (when artist-monks symbolized reality, instead of trying to counterfeit it, in their illuminations) had painters used colors so arbitrarily. Matisse's colors were the brightest he could buy, brushed in flat and separated by dancing lines. A tree might be turquoise or tangerine, a river russet, a girl gold, with green...
...Couturier was a bit harsh. The very fact that Rouault was admitted (to the little church at Assy-TIME, June 20, 1949) shows that the situation has begun, just barely, to improve...