The U.S. art lover has cherished a touching picture of France's conquered but still defiant artists working away, cold and underfed, in their Paris garrets while the conquerors walked away with their work. Last week news came from Germany that a group of top-flight Left-Bank painters and sculptors (some of them formerly listed by Hitler's Kulturkammer as "degenerate artists") were touring and lecturing in Germany as guests of the Third Reich. The guests: Painters Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cornelius van Dongen, Othon Friesz, Sculptors Paul Maximiliaen Landowski,...
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