| The Independents are today commemorating their centenary. (...) It was important to start again, in a different form, the homage of 1926. The exhibition of the Cinquantenaire appealed only to the living. The hope of the organizers was that these living would put their coquetry to show next to a recent work a canvas of their youth, a canvas-witness, so that
one could at the same time judge their fidelity to themselves and their evolution. (...)
the territorial reserve represented by Maximilien Luce, Shuffeneker, gave the example to Maurice Denis, Dufrénoy, d'Espagnat, Albert André, Vallat, all registered before 1895, to Charles Guérin, Roussel, Sue, Camoin, Igounet de Villers , Friesz, Dufy, Van Dongen, André Lhote, André Lhote, Girieud, Asselin, Vlaminck, Chagall, whom we find at two different ages. (....) |