Three cheers for unloved

What is an exhibition? To illuminate the history of art, to permit the reading of an artist, to make comparisons that only allows the eye to posterity to judge. Case study, therefore, leaving the experts here skeptical of modern art, reluctant to leave "Utrillo in purgatory, as would exposure to teaching the most common (record crowds at the opening). The life of Suzanne Valadon, the warrior, and his son, the hapless Maurice Utrillo, is illustrated in a hundred paintings that have little in common other than genealogy. In the heat of colorful figurative and the mother meets the empty gray blue, white plaster, increasingly evanescent son of the late successful completion of drowning in alcohol (around 4 000 tables only hold 500 l eye of the most favorable).

The most interesting of Suzanne Valadon is under his pen, when it draws a naked girl, lying on a sofa, angular vision of a just formed, or where it immortalizes Mauritius naked child, standing, playing up on the rim of a bowl. Black and firm, composition down like a Japanese print, strong colors, she watches her century modern.

Utrillo lies at the top of the hill where he painted The restaurant mother Catherine in 1912 with a red tint and dashes off to the naive Rousseau. "La bohme creepy, but not the genius of Soutine and Modigliani," says a Swiss expert, no pity for the School of Paris.