Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-07
M ATROCITIES
! A PUZZLE CRITICS
catalogue Is Only Clue to What
metropolitan Museum Paint
ings Are All About
rarNcH WORKS AssAILED
=. eAyMoNp @. CARROLL

,.I.,,. 10 tell what one really thinks
Ntilon, N ,.hideous things'-by no stretch
u IMAGINATION could they be called
dtnas.~now tnt part Of a loan exhibi-
psin'ie IT, tbe Metropolitan Museum OF
uon which have been roundly. con-
M In an anonymous circular
demns' "a Committee of Citizens and
ssssnrnr,ers OF the Museum
SugP Sug.. are so downright bad that one
/ unes ess,snects the circular itself is
nm msonda devised in the hope OF start.
propssantroversy and, IL possible, to get
III ngsv;as sensible folks to go and see
o.p. s. some people will actually put
s. WIZ around. They are so bad as
ns,nos that once seen they could be
Ps,Ia s,I rssnonsible for almost anything
nsu .ne wave. a suicide epidemic. di-
.,,c.s--I will even 20 further-another
world War. .,,
To 10 the point. the condemned
s~in ,.,Ion Of the inability of seven French
% baint. The names of masque-
I. nsa.-s responsible for the atrocities
tSsse are French and not German
u,,ds~are Paul Cezanne, Edward
~ I'c Gas Andre Derain. Paul Gaugin,
~ T.,,i Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Au-
l,. metz Renoir. Let us pray that some
VI those men were born somewhere
.u..ide of France and reduce II pos
.hls the modification Of our sister re-
public. ,,;,, ao .bo
".trocities" together. Although there
a.. I27 frames hanging in the loan
.,S,bition of Impressionist and Post
imuressionist paintings our quest Is
confined TO but twenty three. The cir
cular ia our guide. it supplying US with
N, number Of the branded ones.
"Sorrow" Proves Mystery
M is called Sorrow, which
,bs catalogue says Cezanne used as a
wall decoration for his house at AK.
II IL a huge canvas upon which, in
bue. black, the figure of what may be
a man is leaning over a head, John
the BAPTIST for all we know. 1t Is
a frightful thing and looks like moth
inr No. 3, by the same author, called
'Tbe Bather," is the rear view of a
bovlegged naked man without even the
joip cloth. The water he is about to
lump into resembles a pool of Ink, and
;bs rock upon which he stands could
be ANYTHING that does not exist. All,
we find No. 10 also Is called "The
Bather," and by the same author.
This one has blue, thin legs. wears
the same sort of trunks that prize
fighters do when they enter the ring,
and his face is a smudge. No. II is
catalogued "Still Life-Fruit, Pears
in q dish. with crockery and a
glass Of winc," also by Cezanne. 1t
was mighty thoughtful to tell us what
was on the dish. for it might have
been vegetables. hens eggs or buns so
far as resemblances went. No. %. the
next to view. is called "Lc Chateau
Noir" which was even greater fore
sight,. as 1t looked more like blob"
than anything. The last Cezanne was
No. "a. called "A Sailor" large
blue, green canvas with central fig
ure that possibly might pass for Gen
eral Grant in a thick fog without his
cigar.
Thank heavens, that's over. Now
for the works" of Degas, four of his
bits being on our circular list. No. 81
Is called Before the Race" harmless
thing II you can make it out, supposed
to be seven jockeys astride seven horses,
but more resembling a pile of wood
waiting for the sawbuck. No. 80 is
another "The Bather," being the rear
Of grotesquely shaped woman pulling
a chemise over her head Whether it
is going on or off we can take our
choice There is no water near at hand
No one would turn twice to look at
such woman at the Atlantic City
beach. No. 81 is dubbed, Woman on
Couch, and is daubed representation
Of a woman with her hair down. pitched
forward on her face. her left arm over
her back and her left leg punched under
her body. the foot Drotrudinp Ones
only thought was that Of 6ity for the
poor model who had 70 nose for D.gas
IN this unnatural way, No, az olsp by
Degas called ''Thc Woman Seotcd ),
We discovered to he two Zoe Iancers
legs apart, unfastening their sinners
and so homely are their featurrs thev
must have been doncers for tbo I,nnorio, ),
Royal Opera in RerI;n notod coy ;ts a.,
dancing, chromoo hefora tha r,or '' '''
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Catalogue Tells What 1t Is
Derain is the next of tho ..nou,
impresslonlsts" TO torture omr orttStio tU
senses, four of his "creotions,' ho;na
In the circular, No IO ~ nota ,o"naf %
Still Life. Fruit and VIVA nnttio =;
Without the CataloVue wn certoinIy
would have been lost for there ",as nas
nothing ON the rsnvoY 70 oonn;roo ""S 40
that the ImmnS - "aI"s onIn ~ ronvihce US
res, pears and cherrjsS "ef. Jn Sssa~ fsat oeL t
look Of the chorrtos &C. 'eI, g.. ~ thc', the
peering ont nf eS ,t 80 tn"' oi the races
Bronx Zoo NJ ii%'hry ho ~ , chge al . The
Pine Tree " hnt - lnora " cai'Tq a.. ~, me
Mssrs MTsre :. ana Heath's Ham Tree. -
The foliega 90 rIo,t;t rLe ivnI' lese'i'Diahce 70
\. j. snd so ipp"assns p,smsinni near !, lakewood
With VI; the brush h!d started out to to make
NO. 4S was named Woman. but a
S.sp Ss.sOn .oTEtG better ."monikcr" would have
W. ine ne heht -Nosed Squaw.'
ruin uih nbge not gotten as far as Gau-
Ssva,, , VINO appears to have been more
: chsraotdtnha hr than others, for he makes his
Citing tbo,r uehnlte as, to location, put
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