The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-03
MATISSE PAINTINGS
TO Be SHOWN HERE
Cubist Master Selects Works for
Exhibition at MontrOss
Galleries.
EXPECTED TO MAKE STIR

rte positive assurance was received
yesterday from France that an art exhibit
lion has been arranged for later in the
season that IL sure to set this entire town
hy the ears The conservative" art lovers
that IL to say those who held that there
is oaly one form Of art. the kind they
were brought up 10 revere or the Kind
they were brought up to practise, will
foam at the mouth, forgetting President
Wilson'S recommendations for strict neu-
,f3lity. In warning against the dangers OF
. peculiarly insidious form OF cubism
nut the young people who love new" art.
ius, because IL is new" II for no other
reason will rejoice at the news that
Henri Matsse, the great Henri Matisse.
will have show In New York.
The show will open for discussion in
January, on or about the 18th. 1t will
hang In the Montross Call, ries In the
centre Of the conservative district on
Firth avenue. II will be official. as official
as possible. for the great Henri Matisse Is
selecting the works for tie exhibition
himself He is choosing representative
and important works especially that the
American public may have chance to
gain a fair idea OF the principles OF his
art. for which he has struggled so long.
which have aroused such violent contro-
yersics In Paris and which have so fire.
ouently been misunderstood. The pic
lures will remain on view for six weeks
There are 10 be twenty-elght important
paintings and at least six OF the great
Henri Matisses remarkable sculptures ;
aud in addition to them there will he a
number Of his latest etchings and litho-
graphs for he has given great deal OF
his lime lately 90 etching and TYPOGRAPHY.
The correspondence In regard to this ex-
hib.tion began last summer, about the
time that the European war started, and
for a time It seemed as though the nego-
t!at.ons would have to be called of.
Later. when the possibilities OF a Paris
siege had lessened. the plan was redis-
cussed and now has been happily con-
cuded
H,nry Matsse was represented in the
historic show of modern art in the Lex
ington avenue armory and his paintings
aroused more bitter argument among the
experts than did the celebrated Lady
Coming Down Stairs" among people in
general. The reluctant experts. after a
deal OF talk. admitted that Cezanne,
Gauguin and Van Gogh were dead, which
was In their favor and that they might
be forgiven, but that Henri Matisse was
alive and could not be recognized. Ce
zsnne and Van Gogh, they held. wer,
crazy. but might he allotted inches IL
the hail OF fame as curiosities. but tina
was no reason why greatness should b'
encouraged Besides Henri Matisse was
not really crazy, they said, but was
sane man aping greatness for purposes o.
profit.
In spite of all this condemnation, per
haps because of II. Henri Matisse die
profit lie has become rich and lives II
charming place in Claimant. near Paris
where he has gardens. an attractive villa
big studio and thoroughbreds In III,
stables. His enemies in Paris hav
Gueted their attacks in the face of al
this prosperity. for IN art that pays 4
this extent commands genuine respect
But IN the meantime whenever Ma tiss
exhibits In a new community ali the oil,
a imosities against modern ar; are re
Weakened. and II may safely he prrdicte,
That hot disputes and angry recrim!natior
will he the order Of the day when IN
MortroSs Galleries expose the Niolen
moltrntties OF Matisse To us