| (....) Without doubt this Salon bears witness to an undeniable artistic activity, it nonetheless reflects a spiritual stagnation due to the circumstances, the absence of artists who still reside in the free zone, without direct contact with Paris, and to the abstention of some painters, abstention that some declare calculated to defeat a society where they started and to which most belong. Are these noises founded? In any case, they appear likely, however regrettable that they are at an hour when union is necessary.
The Salon d'Automne will resist this bad mood. He keeps a nucleus of the faithful, and MM. G. d'Espagnat, Desvallières, Seyssand, Vallat, Waroquier, Lotiron, Jacques VKlon, A. Deluol, Girieud, Yves Alix, Desnoyers, to name a few, good workers who are preparing for the recovery no trouble joining the dissidents, less numerous than we think. (...) |