[CUBISM] ROSENBERG, Léonce (1879-1947), gallery... - Lot 31 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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[CUBISM] ROSENBERG, Léonce (1879-1947), gallery... - Lot 31 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
[CUBISM] ROSENBERG, Léonce (1879-1947), gallery owner and art dealer; he was with Kahnweiler the first dealer and defender of Cubism. Letter typed and signed. Paris, June 1, 1934. 1 p. ½ in-4. Response to a critical article on cubism. "Would you allow me, in this connection, to summarize here the answer that I believe I should make, between us, to your criticism of cubism. There are only three kinds of painting: noble painting, bourgeois painting, and concierge painting. Thanks to cubism, we have known noble painting in the twentieth century, for twenty-five years. I hope that in the century of speed, where the scenery changes so quickly, the next painting will not go back to the roture []. The French genius in art is to know how to acclimatize and renew universally the forms borrowed from the outside []. You speak of the outrageous character of the Russians, the Spaniards and the Israelites. I pass for the Russians and the Spaniards of Ibero-Visigothic origin, but I protest for Israel, which has five thousand years of culture, sacred and secular music and Jewish classical literature behind it and in it []. This is why, for lack of plastic traditions, Israel has not been able, until now, to flourish in the field of art. However, alongside the Fauvist painters, from barbaric countries or countries without artistic traditions, such as Chagall, Soutine, Pascin, etc., we have known Picasso and Modigliani, the former in particular, preserving the Mediterranean measure in their audacity [] ".