| This exhibition is not lacking pace; but it brings together early works, for the most part, still young artists, and it deprives the character it could have testified with Girieud, Utrillo, Picasso, Luce. I will be told that Montmartre no longer exists today, and that if the painters, to whom I refer, have acquired more expressive force and sharpness, their current works have almost no longer Montmartre as their object. Butte, while Girieud painted gypsies in the bush, Utrillo Berlioz's house, the Agile Rabbit or the Moulin de la Galette and Picasso Dancers (....) |