| (....) Before trying to analyze the art of Frégier, let's talk a little about man. In Gémenos, this is where it begins, I see little Joseph drawing from nature, washing machines, peasants in the fields, the interior of his father's workshop. It was immediately a revelation. At the first Salon d'Allauch where he exhibited in 1907, he was successful; it was a real salon that one where Jean de Beaumont, a delicate writer, had managed to group an interesting nucleus of painters: Girieud, Lombard, Carrera, Agnelli, the two Verdilhans, Frégier, Carme, Cabasson, Barret, Berthet, Rambert , Audibert, Prud'homme and a few others, all that made up the Allauch Academy of happy memory. (....) |