. International studio. out of it all creates his own eminentlycontemporary estate. As a tribute to the genius of the great satirist,LArt et les Artistes has just issued a Forainnumber, in which M. Gustave Geffroy, presidentof the Academy Goncourt and director of theGobelins, tells the story of the development oi theman and his work. M. Geffroy himself is one ofthe comrades of Forain from the days of Manetand the cafe cle la Nouvelle-Athenes, and enjoysthe distinction, now that the ordeal is past, ofbeing one of the lew persons who sat to Cezannefor a portrait and, further, of alienating him—t
. International studio. out of it all creates his own eminentlycontemporary estate. As a tribute to the genius of the great satirist,LArt et les Artistes has just issued a Forainnumber, in which M. Gustave Geffroy, presidentof the Academy Goncourt and director of theGobelins, tells the story of the development oi theman and his work. M. Geffroy himself is one ofthe comrades of Forain from the days of Manetand the cafe cle la Nouvelle-Athenes, and enjoysthe distinction, now that the ordeal is past, ofbeing one of the lew persons who sat to Cezannefor a portrait and, further, of alienating him—thiswas too frequent in Cezannes sitters to be a dis-tinction -before it was quite finished by discussing,\l. Clemenceau with enthusiasm. Speaking ofthe Master of Aix. in [875 he looked over Forainsshoulder in the Louvre, when the youth was en-gaged in copying a Chardin, and he said to him-self, as he afterward told ML VoIIard, That youngman will arrive, because he studies drawing in forty MARCH I 0 2 2 inceRtiACionAL. LA RELEVEBY FORAIN form. When, overpoweredby Manets leadership, hedeserted the reunions of La Nouvelle-Athenes, hecried, pointing out Forain, That youngsteralready knows how to put a fold into a garment!The history M. Geffrov recounts is Forain, occupying a house in the beautifulPassy quarter of Paris, where for twenty-five yearshe has lived with his wife, herself an exquisitepastellist, and his son, talented in drawing, beganhis career in artistic Bohemia; but by incessantwork, as well as joking, he struggled up frompoverty and misery into journalism. Entirely byhis own efforts with the pencil, the etchers needle,the lithographers stone, he acquired means, acomfortable home, and bourgeoisie. His years of apprenticeship began early. Thelove of drawing was always with him, and as aboy cil twelve and fourteen he faithfully visitedthe Louvre with his notebook. Here he made anacquaintance whose double influence has per-sisted throughout his life, t
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