When this year's Autumn Salon opened in Paris, 30,000 people crowded in the first day. Nowhere else in the world does art mean so much to so many. And no where else do so many artists owe so much to so few. A thousand painters were exhibited in the show; most of them were followers of the three grand old masters of modern art, Matisse (76), Picasso (64) and Braque (63). The exhibition crackled with cubistic beefsteaks, sparkled with brokenly abstract wine bottles, and blazed with serried riots of bright colors, explosively combined.
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