A VERY GOOD VINTAGE THIS YEAR
As we say in France, this is the "Rentrée" It's difficult to translate into English. The beginning of the school year or return to work don't describe the Artistic salons opening in Octobre...I have been attending the Salon d’Automne for a long time. But not since it was opened in 1903! The first Salon d'Automne was created under the initiative of the Belgian architect, literary man and art collector Frantz Jourdain, along with the architect Hector Guimard, the painters Georges Desvallières, Eugène Carrière, Félix Vallotton, Édouard Vuillard and the Maison Jansen, a Paris-based interior decoration office (the first truly global design firm) founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen. Perceived as a reaction against the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon, this massive exhibition almost immediately became the showpiece of developments and innovations in 20th-century painting, drawing, sculpture, engraving, architecture and decorative arts. Dur