The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-31

has brought to art the same lire that
her father infused into politics. If
the name of her father remains in
tertwined with the name of Pelle-
tan and Clemenceau, among those
who gave life to the Third Republic,
that of his daughter will remain as
sociated with the names of Gaugin
and of Morillot. among those who
gave life to tropical art.
Black Blood
Being a mixture of creole blood,
black blood. and Indian; of the vol
cano and the equator; there is al
ways something revolutionary in her
genius, even if the discipline of the
Mediterranean and of France have
tempered later the first waves of
lava.
"When her father after having
been twelve years deputy from
Pointre -Pitre, then deputy from
Paris, then Governor of Martinique,
then Treasurer of Guadeloupe, took
the little girl born in France with
him to Guadeloupe. who has since
then retained all the radiation, all
the spirit of that sunny isle of
beauty.
Returning to Avignon (France)
as treasurer general, her father
brought her back with him. She
found in the atmosphere of Vaucluse
and also of Algeria, where she passed
several winters. new harmonies of
color, Latin and African, that made
her decide to take up the art of
painting. This natural vocation was
instructed, guided, and led by the
skill of the great colorist. Pierre Gil
volas, then director of the School of
Fine Arts of Avignon. Here Ger
maine Casse took constantly the first
prizes, and owes much to Pierre Gil
volas. vigorous pupil himself of De
lacroix, much of her knowledge OF
values and proportions.
.... West Indies !
after the harmonies of Provence
and the Mediterranean which illum.
mated her youth, Nine. Case ther
returned to the native sumptuous
beauty of Guadeloupe. When in
1920. Nine. Case decided to leave
her Paris atelier and her friends ir
Provence to spend two years in the
West Indies, she at last truly founc
herself in Guadeloupe. She brought
twenty-four. canyasses, which were
exhibited in the Georges Petit Gal
lery, thanks to the initiative of M
M. Andre Schoeller. Several o.
these paintings of 1922 excited thC
keenest admiration.
Guadeloupe
"What natural studio can be mort
exciting, more grand than thi
Guadeloupe as rendered by Nine
| Case with its volcano SUBMITS clat
in green and violet, and from whicl
shoot fires from the burning hear
| of our planet; emerald isle suspend
| ed as it were in a tropic sapphire
cooled by soft breezes, and inhabite'
by laughing people, a mixture o
three races.
"Perfect of muscles and Of form
as the Greek islands are these wo
men on the canvasses of Nine. Casse
Perfect because the women of thes
islands carry as did the Greek wo
men, the basket and the amphor;
on their heads in running from tn
mountain to the sea and from tn
sea to the mountain, women ricl
with blood which flows voluptuous
" under their skins of amber an
ebony.
"These women of Guadeloupe an
Martinique, with their bright cotto'
dresses and silk bandanas are stil
the living models of the eterna
Venus, in the midst of intoxicatin
tropical loveliness and warmth per
petually being renewed through tn
action of sun, volcano, forest an
sea. Lafcadio Hearn in literature
Daniel Thaly in poetry, and Germain
Casse in painting have opened to oil
Europe the new doors of this para
disc of beauty.
Daughter of beautiful Guadt
loupe, Nine. Casse has given back t
her maternal isle all that she owe
it, because she brought to it all tn
sensuous beauty of light and of line
of esthetic France"
There are total of 145 pieces !
the exhibit. all the work of MN,
Casse. The majority of subjects, g
was said, deal with the West Indie
but there are several of Provenci
Bretagne, North Africa, and SoutI
ern France.
Nine. Case, who is probably M
vet thirty, is also a writer of abilit,
She is contributor to several al
periodicals, as well as director of tn
journal of the Society Of West II
dian Artists. She also does decora
i've work for the theatres, Her sti
dio is at 20 bis Rue D'Alesia, Paris.
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