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After half a century of hemming & haw-hawing, the Royal Academy at last admitted that modern, school-of-Paris art might be art. To let Britons judge the stuff for themselves, the academy last week opened a show of France's top moderns. Among those best represented were Utrillo, Rouault, Braque, Chagall, Leger and Matisse*-all of them old men now. Critics and the earnest students who jammed the exhibition rapturously agreed that it was great. But the old guard closed ranks, fixed bayonets, and refused to surrender...
...Paris last week, after arguing the point for 18 months, representatives of French Painter Maurice Utrillo finally convinced a court that he had not painted some 30 pictures bearing his name. The bogus Utrillos, the court decided, had been put in circulation by Jean Pinson-Berthet, ex-partner of Utrillo's art dealer. The damage to Utrillo's up & down reputation was set at 2,000,000 francs ($5,714). Pinson-Berthet, who had disappeared, was sentenced to five years imprisonment...
...Maurice Utrillo, 66, still paints a few of the Montmartre scenes whose pale, subtle coloring and cool geometry of composition made his fame. But red-eyed, emaciated "Monsieur Maurice" no longer visits his old haunts; he sits at home in a suburban stucco villa, staring at his buxom energetic wife and dreaming of the dear, drunken, amazingly productive old days...
...arrived' at 50 it's not too serious; he may still be admired in a cafe if not in a museum and his hopes for the future are treated with respect. France's best painters-Picasso, Matisse, Rouault, Chagall, Braque, Utrillo, Derain, Dufy, Vlaminck and Léger-are all in their 60s and 70s. These young-old men are still the Alps of the modern art world...
Society swells and bohemians alike flocked to Foujita's exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss...