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...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...
Engaged. Count Henri de Castellane, Harvard student with the class of 1925, son of Vice President Count Stanislas de Castellane of the French Chamber of Deputies, nephew of the Marquis Marie Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane who was once husband of Anna Gould (she is now Duchesse de Talleyrand); and Sylvia de Castilleja de Guzman, daughter of the Conde de Castilleja de Guzman of Spain...
...Literary Guild celebrates its fifth anniversary this month by publishing "Savage Messiah" by H. S. Ede, a biography of the young French sculptor, Henri Gaudier. The biography is one of the finest yet selected by the Guild and was an appropriate choice to round out their fifth year of existence...
Gaudier's father was a carpenter who was pleased when his son won scholarships, not so pleased when the scholarship led to garrety art instead of clerkly business. At the Paris library where Henri studied in the evenings he met a gaunt Polish woman of 38, Sophie Brzeska; talked to her hungrily, fell in love. He was 18. Sophie believed she was destined to be a great writer, but she had had nothing but hard knocks. Her family joined the majority of her acquaintance in disliking her. She had been as far as the U. S. (as a governess...
Biographer Ede says it was a purely platonic relation, and most of Gaudier's letters in this book bear him out. After reading them you can believe it. Sophie was a neurotic, Henri a genius (super-neurotic). They had a hard time in other ways too. Sophie cooked whatever food there was on Monday, they ate it cold the rest of the week. They were both nearly always ill, largely from undernourishment. Their lodgings were always depressing, dirty. Sometimes Sophie put cotton in her ears, sat down facing the wall, shut her eyes and sang...