| (....) The old school was moreover able to assimilate all the means for its defense, its authority, until our century - and even until 1910 - made fold the great majority of the art critics. She alone saw the doors of public or private galleries open. Even today, after Manet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir and Degas, after Modigliani, at the time when nude painters are working, who are called Matisse, Bonnard, Derain, Asselin, Camoin, Charmy, Charles Guérin, Barraud , Jean Puy, Marquet, Rouault, Valadin, Flandrin, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz, Ségonzac, Luc-Albert Moreau, Girieud, van Dongen, Favory, Lhote, Kisling, Marval, Crissey, - and many others! - there is a large clientele for markdowns by Bouguereau and Henner, and the spring graces reworked according to the procedures of Raphaël Collin. (....) |