Word: segonzacs
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...highly specialized field which Georges Braque took for his province 30 years ago and has never deserted. A big canvas, almost 5-by-4 ft., it hangs on the same wall with a Picasso Harlequin, a stormy Vlaminck meadow, a Matisse nude and a figure painting by Segonzac. All of these painters except Vlaminck are onetime winners of the Carnegie first prize. The Braque painting rather gained than lost by their company. Why this was true few critics and fewer spectators could say in confident, simple words. But confident and extremely simple were the words of derision with which...
Greatest surprise was the award of the $1,500 first prize to France's André Dunoyer de Segonzac for a sketchy landscape of St. Tropez. Painter de Segonzac, 49, is an important artist, has won the gratitude of Riviera realtors by first discovering the possibilities of the Gulf of St. Tropez in 1906. But few critics could find anything in this particular canvas to lift it above any one of 30 or 40 others in the show...
...lecture on the same subject will be given at the same time and place tomorrow by Professor Pope. Modern French painting is also the subject of attention on the part of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, which is now exhibiting the works of Braque, Bonnard, Brancusi, Leger, Maillol, Segonzac and others in its rooms at 207.8, Harvard Cooperative Building...
...sharp contrast is a "Spring Landscape" by Segonzac, notable for its rugged and vigorous handling. The cool grays and vivid greens of the picture are particularly attractive. To grasp fully the charm of this heavily painted canvas it is necessary to stand as far from the picture as possible...
...loan show of the Contemporary Art Society in Colnaghi's, Bond St., London, the Prime Minister of England opened an exhibition of modernist French painting. Represented were Braque, Perain, Dufresne, Dufy, Flandrin, Friez, Marchand, Matisse, Picasso, Segonzac, Utrillo, Bonnard. The Prime Minister seemed quite familiar with such names and quite at home in the midst of Contemporary Art. "He proceeded to state, without false gusto, a few simple truths about Art, pointing out that Art, like Nature, never dies, that the old masters of today were once contemporaries, a fact too frequently forgotten by their exclusive worshippers, that...