| Mr. Paul Léon, director of Fine Arts, inaugurated the exhibition of nude painters at Galerie Devambez, 43, boulevard Malesherbes. Modern painters have found in the study of the nude a theme that allows them to express themselves freely. The way they bring out a plastic and spiritual expression with a nude quickly informs us about their temperament and their possibilities. (....) But the painter cannot deviate too deliberately from nature, if he does not want to arrive at a cold and theoretical work. A naked must remain alive and essentially alive. Let's see how the painters gathered here solved the problem. (...) from Sabbagh, Lhote, Favory, Gimmy, Girieud, (...) |