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Nain and the remarkably poetic work by Poussin. really capable. brilliant and talented women painters of
Tancrede et Hermine. Watteau is particularly well the last two centuries.
represented by four most beautiful canvases: Le Camp Of the leading artists of the nineteenth century there
Vo/ant. Les De/assements de la Guerre, Les Coquettes, is a most picturesque composition by Bailly and
and Le Repos pendant la fuite en Egypte. There is also landscapes by Corot. Courbet and Delacroix. Cezanne.
Lancret's enchanting Camargo. Nattier's La batail/e de the master of Aix. is represented by four magnificent
Po/tova. Perronneau·s Un enfant au livre. and a beautiful canvases: Bouquet dans une Vase, L'homme a la
Boucher La blanchisseuse de Chardin. Then there are pipe, Dame en bleu, and Montagne Sainte-Victoire,
the most impressive works of Fragonard. such as Le one of his last and most powerful works.
Balser gagne, La Famille Pauvre. Le Balser a la Derobee There are four Gauguin canvases of exceptional
and La Terrasse de Marly. quality. one of which. l'ldo/e bleue is reproduced here.
Madame Vigee-Lebrun is represented by a self Space does not permit me here to enlarge on the
portrait which was executed in Russia in 1800. I con­ extraordinary 'richesse· of paintings by Van Gogh.
sider that she and Berthe Morisot are the only two Monet. Pissarro. Sisley, Renoir, Bonnard. Derain.
Vlaminck. Marquet. Leger. Matisse. Douanier Rousseau.
Signac. and of great natural significance, seven can­
vases by Picasso. the most remcrkable of which is
the Cubist Period Portrait of Ambroise Vollard.
The Paris Brennial Exhibition at the Museum of Art
was preceded by an exhibition at the Musee Galliera.
entitled 'Promesses Tenues·. This may be termed as a
protest against the much criticised. straggling Paris
Biennial Exhibition of untenable works by artists whose
age is strictly limited from twenty to thirty-five years.
Monsieur Heron de Villefosse, curator of the Musee
Ga//iera. has seen fit to make a 'rejustification· by
organising this show of some sixty works by more
experienced and talented artists. aged from thirty-five
to sixty years.
The Exhibition at the Musee Galliera. even if it is
much more restricted than that of the Paris Biennial, is
certainly more significant as compared to the enormous
and ambitious display at the Museum of Modern Art.
None the less. the entire show at the M usee Galliera is
devoted to non-figurative art. However. there are here
works of considerable interest.
Simon Hantai (born 1922 in Hungary) exhibits an
abstract oil painting on paper which I find a powerful
embodiment of quasi-surrealist expression.
John Levee (born 1924 in Los Angeles) shows a
typical example of painting by the New York School
of Abstraction.
Jean Paul Riopelle (born 1924 in Montreal) has a
canvas which is so heavily laden with impasto. that one
feels it is about to crash to the floor!
Huguette-Arthur Bertrand (born 1925 at Ecouen)
shows an attractive and original canvas of marked
plastic qualities. entitled Fortune de Mer.
Andre Marfaing (born 1925 in Toulouse) remains an
exponent of Action Painting (otherwise known in
France as · Tachisme'); he gives no title to his com­
position which is simply splashed black paint on white
canvas.
Aldine (born 1917 in Cairo) exhibits an abstract.
fascinating. out-of-this-world composition entitled
Le Monde des Illusions.
One of the central pieces on show at the Musee
Galliera is by Georges Mathieu (born 1921 in Boulogne­
sur-mer). This abstract expressionist. who has a great
admiration for the likewise abstract painting of the
Japanese. soon is going to have an important exhibition
of his latest outsize canvases at the Gallery Charpen­
tier. Typical of his enigmatic work which he executes
with remarkable speed. he entitles Celebration du
Silence.
For those who still appreciate abstract painting. there
Marcel Pouget is Corneille (born 1922 in Liege). who shows a com­
Le Tourmente 1965 position Souvenir d'un Jardin au Coeur de /'Ete.
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