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VINCENT VAN GOGH-Julius Meier-Graefe-Harcourt, Brace...
...Literature, Julius Meier-Graefe, are not so much sentries as interpreters. Bilingual, they can read the barbaric ensigns of these seeming foreigners and translate them into symbols that will not frighten the commonest sense. Interpreter Meier-Graefe's biography of crazy Painter van Gogh is known already to a few U. S. readers (the Medici Society, London, first published it in a limited de luxe edition, 1922). Significant of the increased interest in left-wing artists and writers is this revised translation, sponsored by the Literary Guild. An artist in his own right, Biographer Meier-Graefe has fused...
...paintings will show, is a history of the liberation of the artist. The steps by which the Impressionists and Post Impressionists established this freedom, and its particular adaptation by the Cubists, the Expressionists and the Post War Group are outlined in the exhibition. Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Villon, Leger, Cocteau, Lurcat, Hugo are a few of the artists shown. A statement of the chief interest and contribution of each will be printed under the paintings...
...present and explain a form of art as yet little enjoyed by the casual gallery visitor, but which they hope to make of dramatic historical appeal as well as of aesthetic interest. Moderns are well represented in the show, which will include still-life paintings by Cezanne. Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Matisse, Derain, and Walt Kuhn, lent by the Marie Harriman Gallery of New York. "Bananes at Ananas" by Renoir, from Durand Ruel of New York, is of especial interest since this is the first time it has been publicly shown in this country...
...fact that the first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows the artist himself suddenly and horribly committed suicide. To the general public he is already becoming a Character, classed with Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Modigliani, Van Gogh, and Lord Byron, among the rips, rakes, and naughty fellows of the arts...