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...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...
Other paintings on display at the gallery-each in four to six copies-were by Picasso, Dufy, Klee, Vlaminck, Signac and Derain. The facsimiles had been made by 28-year-old Janine Aeply and her husband Jean Fautrier on hand presses in a little studio ten miles outside Paris...
...stabs and slashes. His friend Derain called Matisse's colors "so many sticks of dynamite," and in the Paris Autumn Salon of 1905 the stuff exploded. Matisse's paintings had been put in the same room with those of other crazy young men: Rouault, Dufy, Derain and Vlaminck. Almost everyone who peeked into that room came away reeling with outrage. The new painters were just fauves, they decided-wild beasts-and Henri Matisse the wildest...
Could Paris produce a new generation of painters comparable to its aging masters? Matisse, Bonnard and Rouault were all crowding 80, Picasso and Braque were close to 70. Utrillo, Vlaminck and Derain were old too, and out of the swim as well. Surrealism was all but dead. As of last week, only one "group" of painters in Paris had any recognizable form. They were "the twelve."* Nine of the twelve have already had shows this season...
Four of the painters in the show, Derain (66), Van Dongen (67), Segonzac (63), and Vlaminck (70), had been suspended from public showing for the past year (because they exhibited in Berlin during the war). Now their year of quiet humiliation was up, and the weary old foursome could creep into the daylight once again...