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When the performance was over, most of the audience and some of the ballerinas trooped to Back Bay to view a top-notch art exhibit-78 paintings by Georges Rouault-and the Institute's new home at No. 210 Beacon St. The guests, queued up in the street and taxing the energies of the ushers (Harvard footballers), packed three floors of the building, sipped hot bouillon and champagne punch, saw more of each other than of the pictures...
...Museum of Modern Art, was weaned two winters ago, a year after Jim Plaut became its director. A Harvardman (1933), he took art as a snap course. Since then Jim Plaut has had two great ambitions: to get permanent quarters for the Institute; to put on the first big Rouault show in the U. S. The quarters he got from Mrs. Joel Goldthwait, mother of Nathaniel Saltonstall (first cousin of Governor-re-elect Leverett Saltonstall), who is the Institute's president and Boston's most eligible bachelor. She handed over her five-story house with no strings. Director...
Mild-looking, baldish Georges Rouault, who was born in a bomb shelter during the Paris Commune, is now 69, is presumably living and working in occupied France, perhaps in Paris, where he holds a sinecure as director of a museum full of fairy-tale paintings by his teacher, Academician Gustave Moreau. Today a good Rouault costs about $3,500. For the Institute's Rouault show, Director Plaut was unable to import any paintings from Europe, or even to borrow one from the late exhibition at the New York World's Fair. He collected his show from...
...manner in which Rouault's paintings were first exhibited is diametrically opposed to decent aesthetic standards; a work of art has no functional value when--as was the case Monday night--it occupies a forgotten place on the wall of a room containing some of the finest stuffed shirts in the community. "How like Cezanne," they exclaim, as they bob up and down within their protective layers of starch. Perhaps the following quotations will better illustrate my point. The first two are from the remarkably fine catalogue which accompanied the exhibit. Writing of Rouault, the author states, "he would arrive...
...ironical that "les gens de commerce," and "patronizing opportunists," those people against whom Rouault would launch his berbal attacks, comprised the main body of the spectators who were first to attend this retrospective exhibit of his paintings...