British art critic Clive Bell (1869 – 1964) is remembered today as one of the most devoted champions of modern abstract art. In the attached article from THE NEW REPUBLIC, Bell explained the significance the French modernist André Derain (1880-1954), who he believed to have been the “best painter in all of France” (reserving for Picasso the roll of the “most influential painter in all of Europe”).
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