| The discovery of the Mediterranean coast by painters is not very old, but we can now measure the consequences it had. (....)
But let's go back to the birth of these beautiful Mediterranean countries in painting. (....) There were Renoir at Cagnes and Cézanne in its creeks; a little later, there was Girieud and about the same time Othon Friesz who came from the North and found in these regions the Promised Land. (....)
All of this was before the war; as soon as the armistice, it was the rush towards the south. (....) |