Paris, traditionally the place where the talented young wild men go, is actually an old man's paradise. Last week art lovers crowded the swank Galerie Charpentier in Faubourg Saint-Honore, to see 100 topflight examples of the contemporary "Paris School." Of the 52 painters in the show, about a dozen were dead. The average age of the living: 65.
The show displayed the rich harvest of an era whose beginnings had not yet been recognized or accepted by a good many Americans. Among the radical grandfathers of modern art:
ΒΆ Matisse (76), whose freewheeling, almost religiously joyful art is broader and bolder...
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