Art: Petit Maitre

Persons acute to the latest trends of modern art hurried to Manhattan's Brummer Galleries last week to see the first U. S. showing of a precise, dapper gentleman unknown to U. S. shores, whose reputation in Europe is growing like a downhill snowball.

Pierre Roy is fiftyish, stocky, wears pince-nez and a very neat toothbrush mustache. Educated in England, he still buys his clothes there, is seldom seen without his bowler hat, yellow gloves and tightly rolled umbrella. M. Roy is completely bilingual and looks not unlike Premier André Tardieu. He has more over...

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