New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Paintings, Prints and Glass

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lesson they deserve? Can YOU an
nounce to Ia Kosnevska that you are
4 about TO unveil great artistic sensa-
tion which you have been ten wears
Epreparing?"
Il 2" cried honest Douche.
Listen. / shall announce, by means
1 Of two or three we'll placed articles,
i that you have founded new school,
the ideo-analytic school. Till this mo-
inent tportraitsts, plunged in the fen
4 OF their ignorance, have painted human
beings The more fools they! What
they should have painted is the idea
the great man suggested TO them! Thus
the portrait of colonel might we'll be
five gold stripes floating in a field of
blue. horse in one corner and
4 decoration in another. The portrait of
q great manufacturer might contain
smoke, monstrous chimneys and a
clenched fist shifting terrific desk. Do
you understand me, Pierre Douche, and
can you paint twenty ideo-analytic
pictures by the end of the month 2"
The painter smiled sadly. SIN an
hour" answered he. Worse still,
Glaise, this may actually come to some
/! thing"
/ Let us try them"
but, really, lack the necessary
crust"
"Oh, don't let that bother you When
asked for an explanation, take your
time, blow UP puff of pipe smoke at
your questioner and say languidiy.
Have you ever watched stream?'"
"And what does that mean?"
Nothing, but it will be thought
quite wonderful. And when we have
been discovered, explained and ex-
alted, we will reveal the truth and
enjoy the confusion Of the snobs."
He little knew.
Two months later vanishing day at
the Douche Exhibition was closing in
an aureole of glory. Humming and
dancing the lovely Nine. Kosnevska
fingered by the side of her new genius!
"Ah," she cried, "what touch, what
force, what technique! The intel
lectual mastery, the revelation of it.
And how, dear master, did you ever
create the astounding syntheses 2"
The painter took his time, puffed,
and said languidly, Dear lady, have
you ever watched stream 2" And the
fair Nine. ,Kosnevska almost trembled
with JOY at the phrase.
! And over his fur collar, the critic
Levy Coeur exclaimed to his group OF
hearers,
every fine! Very fine! I have long
protested against a slavish rendering
of the sitter. But tell me, Douche,
whence comes the revelation? From
my articles?"
Douche took his time again, puffed
an enormous triumphant puff, and
stream. monsieur?
"Admirable!" cried the critic.
And now celebrated agent took
Douche by the arm and led him into a
. corner.
"Douche," said he, "you are my man
Let me have the right to launch these
Don't change your manner before con-
sulting with me and I will buy fifty
pictures year"
But Douche remained enigmatic and
did not reply.
The studio en1ptied slowly. Paul
Emile Glaise closed the door behind
the last visitor. Alone with his friend,
the novelist gave rein to a great roar
of laughter. Douche looked at him
with an air of surprise in his eyes.
"Well, old fellow" cried Glaise,
"what do you think of it now? Did
you see the chap in the fur coat? And
the three girls who kept repeating so
new! SO new!' We have certainly
pulled their legs. All, Pierre Douche,
knew the gulf Of human imbecility 30
be deep, but I never knew it to be bot
tomless!" And he roared again.
But the painter frowned, his frame
shook and he answered brusquely..
"Fool!"
"Foor?" cried the angry novelist,
"when I have just carried out the best
joke played in Paris this year."
The painters eyes, full of pride,
turned to his twenty ideo~analytic por-
traits. With the force born of convic-
ton he added, "Yes, Glaise, you are a
fool. There is something in this ideo-
analytic style"
The novelist, stupefed, gazed at his
friend.
"Well, of alp he cried. "I
say, Douche, who suggested this new
style to you?"
Then Pierre Douche once more took
his time, and once more puffed an
enormous puff.
Have you ever" said he, watched
stream?"