| The Salon de Mai, whose opening was eagerly awaited by all friends of art, will not take place this year. But here is the reason.
We know that the Municipal Council, that day excellently inspired, voted, in its last session, unanimously, a credit of 10,000 francs to decorate Fresques the amphitheatres of the new Faculty Sciences by two prominent artists of Marseille, MM . Pierre Girieud and Alfred Lombard .....
... By entrusting them with such an important task as decorating the vast halls of the new faculty, the Municipal Council was as independent as it was tasteful, worked well for the glory of Marseilles, and crowned the young effort of the Salon de Mai. But at the same time he interrupted it.
Messrs. Girieud and Lombard were, in fact, the main organizers of this event to which the Vieux Port formed an admirable framework that it does not seem to be able to deploy elsewhere .... |