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*Murdock Pemberton, Kansas-born art critic of The New Yorker, woman's club lecturer, is even more definite, lists the four greatest living painters thus: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Derain. All except Matisse, who as a judge cannot show, are exhibiting in Pittsburgh. *Paul Gauguin, morose Post-Impressionist painter of the 1890's, grew disgusted with modern civilization, sold all his European paintings for 9,860 francs ($1,972) deserted his wife and children and went to spend the rest of his life in Tahiti, the "Terrestrial Paradise.'' There, still subject to acute melancholia, he went completely native, painted serene pictures of statuesque Maoris on canvas salvaged from flour bags, wrote Noa Noa, an autobiographical account; died in poverty on the island of Dominica in the Marquesas, May 9, 1903.
*Last summer Picasso refused 750,000 francs ($30,000) from the Copenhagen Museum for a painting. He asked and expects to get one million francs.