| Why refuse a painter
what one grants to another?
Comœdia announced, last year,
that one of the most brilliant French painters
cais whose art, coming from the so-called "fauves" school, widened towards the most beautiful conceptions of classical painting, Mr. Pierre Girieud had received the commission from the Ministry of Fine Arts.
Arts and the University of Poitiers,
of a very important series of compo-
areas intended to be mounted
in the great hall of this University
- Mr. Pierre Girieud completed this
considerable work, this series of
highly impressive decorative compositions
and which offers a sym-
bolique of the various ages of thought
arts and letters.
Now this decoration is about
to leave for Poitiers. Pierre Girieud
hoped at least to have, as major satisfaction in the absence of other compensation, the joy of presenting in Paris, if only for a week, his canvases.
But we understand that under
pretexts - absolutely vain,
that it would be easy to remedy it, we
would be willing to deny him the halls of
the Orangerie, the only ones allowing
provide a proper presentation
of these compositions of great height
tor.
We are convinced that it will suffice
to point out the fact so that Mr. Henri
Verne and the direction of the National Museums
nationals intervene and allow the
painter Pierre Girieud to obtain satisfaction
faction, also allow the press and
Parisian amateurs to know the
decoration of the University of Poitiers
before its installation. Pierre Girieud
deserves to be, treated at least as
although, last fall, the com- ,
positions for Venezuela by M. O.
D.V. Guillonnet.
The fact is too rare of such
achievements to let them go unnoticed.— G. B.
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