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Preface.
IV
MARCHAND
OF the younger French artists Marchand seems
Carfax to me t^e most interesting. By " the younger "
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tion,june 1 mean those who, though they
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descend trom
Cezanne, have been influenced, directly or
indirectly, by Matisse or Picasso or both.
These form a just distinguishable group sandwiched
between the quasi-impressionists Bonnard,
Manguin, Vuillard and the Cubists.
To be precise, it is of a battered sandwich
that they are the core ;
the jam oozes through
on either side. It always does. That is why
scholars and historians have a hard time
of it.
I dare say Marchand would deny that he
had been influenced by any one ; for some
strange reason artists like to suppose that,
unlike all other living things, they are unaf-
fected by their environment. The matter is
of no consequence, but with the best will in
the world I should find it hard to believe that
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