Léonce ROSENBERG (1879-1947) gallery owner and... Lot 31

Léonce ROSENBERG (1879-1947) gallery owner and art dealer. L.S., Paris June 1, 1934 ;1 page and a half in-4. Response to a critical article on cubism. ... " There are only three kinds of painting: noble painting, bourgeois painting, concierge painting. Thanks to cubism, we have known noble painting in the 20th century for twenty-five years. I hope that in the century of speed, where the scenery changes so quickly, the next painting will not go back to roture. ...] The French genius in art is to know how to acclimatize and renew on a universal level the forms borrowed from the outside. You speak of the outrageous character of the Russians, the Spaniards and the Israelites. You speak of the outrageous character of the Russians, the Spaniards and the Israelites. I pass for the Russians and the Spaniards of Ibero-Visigothic origin, but I protest for Israel, which has five thousand years of culture, sacred and secular music and Jewish classical literature behind it and in it. ...] This is why, for lack of plastic traditions, Israel has not been able to flourish in the field of art until now. However, alongside the Fauvist painters, from barbaric countries or countries without artistic traditions, such as Chagall, Soutine, Pascin etc..., we have known Picasso and Modigliani, the former in particular, preserving the Mediterranean measure in their audacity "...