Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
BY JOHN GUNTHER.

PARIS.-At one end of the Boulevard
Raspail fish and beans give way to art
once in a while. The usual market
the market where the thrifty American
in Paris buys flowers and shoes and
eggs-closes down and in its place rises
a picture market. Here under the trees
are arrayed line upon line OF eaSels.
mounds of Autographs, heaps Of etch-
ings, charcoal drawings by the Quire,
paintings and wood cuts and sketches
In every medium under the sun.
At the other end Of the Boulevard
Raspail-if you jump diagonally across
the river-stands an enormous domed
building, the French tricolor above 1t,
hundreds of sleek, swanky automobiles
purring attentively outside. In 1t is an
other picture market-one of q differ
ent kind--the Grand Salon.
Between these two extremes, poised a
mile from each other. lies almost any
kind of art the uneasy world can show
or look at.
Americans First Step.
What happens to a young American
who comes to France to be an artist?
What leads to paintings at 20 francs
q gross (more or less) at the Raspail
market, and what to Salon prize win
ners at $4,000?
II a young American artist comes to
Paris to study, his first step probably,
II he has the price, will be to enroll
In an atelier. There are dozens in Paris,
and four of them-Julian's, the Dele
cluse, the Grand Chaumiere and the
Cola Rosse-are internationally known.
They are not expensive. At Julians
the fees in the drawing and painting
classes Is 125 francs $50 a month for
half days work and l60 francs ($6.4o)
for full day.
All the ateliers are organized alike.
At Jultan's the student enters sin
gle enormous room, hidden behind a
court in the Rue Dragon. Julian's, by
the way, is not coeducational. Wom-
an students have to go to another
branch, half a dozen blocks away on
Dragon room is divided into three
sections. At one end students of
sculpture surround a model In blue
pants squatting on a table. In the
center half a hundred painters are
bawllng, yelling kidding, .expostulat-
I ing-around a girl who wears her
nakedness with boredom. At the far
end architectural students sketch
from casts.
Work Of Former Students.
Around the room are pictures by
former students of Julian's students
famous in George Moore's day; among
them Bouguereau, Constant, Jules Lee
fevre, Jean-Paul Laurens, Robert
Fleury. Forty thousand students have
entered Julians since 1t was founded
by Rodolphe Julian in 1868. The stu
dents today don't seem to bear the
| weight of this tradition very heavily
They smoke cigarettes at work. jibe
| their professors, kid the models and
shout derisively every time a visitor
enters the room.
But cheap as the famous ateliers
are Cby American standards, they are
| far too dear for many young students
| in Paris. Or perhaps the young Amer
lean arrives in Paris with the elements
| of his job already under hts hat; IN
either case he may rent q studio and
start work on his own.
To do that he needs, besides the
| studio, only his equipment and a
model. Models for posing in the nude
cost about IS francs $50 cents) day
1t isn't very profitable employment
! for the models. Yet hundreds OF them
| flock about the cafes and boulevards
| looking for work.
once a painting or drawing Is done
the student sets about marketing It
There are at least $50 art dealers in