Word: salons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris' first Salon d'Automne was a smashing success. High society talked about it for weeks, and more than 4.000 ordinary people paid hard-earned francs to get in. Last week the Salon d'Automne was celebrating its 50th birthday with a special, three-part show designed to recall its past triumphs...
Beastly Riot. There was plenty to celebrate. The Salon d'Automne was the first Paris salon to stage a retrospective exhibition, devoting a whole room to the works of Cezanne. In 1905 the Salon got what it needed to become a popular fixture: a first-class scandal. Fauvism, expressed in the wildly colored canvases of les fauves (the wild beasts, e.g., Matisse, Marquet, Derain and Vlaminck), caused an artistic riot. Respectable gentlemen insulted each other, shook their ivory-capped canes at the canvases. Raged one critic: "A pot of paint has been thrown in the face of the public...
...Salon won more fame in later years with major retrospective shows of the works of Courbet and Gauguin (1906), Corot (1909), Pissarro (1911). Rodin (1919) and Renoir (1920). After the liberation of Paris, the Salon reopened in 1945 with a gigantic Picasso retrospective...
...asked her to play the Peer Gynt Suite with him. Ibsen presented her with his autographed portrait. Mallarme wrote poems to her. Verlaine read her his verse and wept. Toulouse Lautrec painted her picture, then tickled the soles of her feet with his brush. Bonnard did murals for her salon. Picasso made her godmother to his first child. Proust called her beautiful. Maillol asked her to pose for sculpture. "In you the image of immortality seems achieved," he wrote her. "There is nothing left but to copy it." Renoir painted seven portraits of her, often pleaded that she open...
...Paris' Grand Palais last week, 105 automakers from eight countries put their prize products on display in Europe's most lavish motorcar exhibit, the 40th Salon d'Automobile et du Cycle. While car prices ran as high as $14,000, it was the "baby cars" that stole the show...