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Berserk & Brilliant. In Paris, he met an art dealer friend who offered to introduce him to Utrillo. "So I went out to Utrillo's house," he explained. "We sat around and talked, and pretty soon I was taking pictures." Utrillo liked the pictures and introduced Roth to Vlaminck -and it went on from there...
Nowadays Paris critics rank Painter Laurencin roughly on a level with Utrillo and Vlaminck. But there was no such accolade when she first started painting half a century ago. Three times she tried to enter Paris' famed Ecole des Beaux Arts, and each time she was coldly refused. Critics called her work "decadent," "ugly," "without talent...
Maurice de Vlaminck used to be one of the "wild beasts" (fauves) who in 1905 led the vanguard of modern French art. Nowadays, he enjoys bellowing about the hollowness of it all. Paris painting circles last week were chewing over the latest Vlaminck roars, published in the Paris weekly, Arts. Excerpts: ¶ "The capital of France has become an immense flea market. To the connoisseur hoping to find a truly French painting . . . everything new turns out to be old and refurbished . . . Even the fleas are false." ¶ "Mechanical invention reigns in the studios of Montmartre and Montparnasse. Mankind is consumed...
...midst of all this, Vlaminck last week put 30 of his own latest anachronisms on display in a Paris gallery. They were the same windswept villages and groves, glowering beneath cloudy skies, that he has been painting for the past 35 years. One modern note: beside one of the rutted country roads that Vlaminck loves to paint, the artist had highlighted the shining red pumps and the oval sign of an Esso station...
Several answered with enthusiastic, informative letters. Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Rouault and Marc Chagall sent along some of their own writings. Andre Derain's reply was a collector's item, a beautiful letter apparently done with brush or drawing pen. The best came last, from Raoul Dufy, who wrote that he wanted to help and would like a favor in return. He asked Dalton to find a house for him to rent in Tucson, where he could go to treat his arthritis. Dalton got busy and, as requested, kept the news of the trip to himself...