| The Salon des Tuileries that Albert Besnard and Bourdelle founded in 1923 did not long deserve its name. It was the year of his birth, when it took place on the terrace by the water. Here he is installed at the Charpentier gallery. (....) Reduced to the dimensions of a gallery, it is only an exhibition, admittedly brilliant, but cannot claim to carry out the program of the founders, which was to present annually, the latest state of the art in France. , except academism.
Most of the masters who made the glory of the Tuileries in the first place have disappeared; among the painters : Besnard, Aman-jean, Asselin, Georges Bouché, Maurice Denis, Dufresnes, Dufrenoy, d'Espagnat, Flandrin, de la Fresnaye, Othon Friesz, Girieud, Charles Guérin, Laprade, Lebasque, Manguin, Henri Ottmann, de La Patellière, Suzanne Valadon, Jacqueline Marval, Vallotton, Valtat, Zingg, Ortiz; (....) |