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...Maurice Vlaminck, modernist painter, told the three judges with a defiant air: "Mere nakedness does not shock...
...existing building by five bridges over the Illinois Central Railroad tracks. Gallery walls will be movable, automobiles will be parked in the basement, escalators will carry visitors to air-conditioned floors. Light beams from sides and corners instead of top lights will illumine a collection of Monet, Davies, Vlaminck, Inness, etc. now stacked unseen in the basement...
...Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse group (Derain, Braque, Rouault, Vlaminck, Friesz), became one of Matisse's most brilliant disciples. Now he lives in a Montmartre apartment painted the same blue he often uses in his skies. Quiet, looking more like a businessman than a painter, he works strenuously, carries a sketch book everywhere, rarely frequents the cafes or studios of fellow artists...
...shop. The Impressionists grew old and died. Fifi Vollard remains the last survivor of their circle, proud of the fact that he discovered and pushed a whole new circle of artists (now middleaged) to take their place: Picasso - he bought his first "Blue Period" Picasso in 1901 - Derain, Bonnard, Vlaminck, Rouault. Of the lot it was Georges Rouault who became Fifi Vollard's closest friend. Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection of the Com mune of 1871. As far as anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice...
...Matisse group, called in derision Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), included André Derain, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon Friesz...