PARIS ART RIOT

Grey River Argus, 12 October 1944, Page 5

PARIS ART RIOT

(Rec. 10.40.) LONDON, October 10. A British United Press Paris correspondent says: Paris is getting back to normal. It has had its first post-liberation riot about art. An uproar occurred when a hundred young men demonstrated against the famous painter Picasso, in a room housing an exhibition of eighty of his paintings at the Autumn Salon. They tore down canvasses, and threw them into the air. Other spectators tried to stop them. Three pictures disappeared in the melee, two being later recovered, but one called “L'fe and Death’s Head” is still missing. The riot lasted three-quarters of an hour before the police closed the room and put the pictures back on the wall. This was Picasso’s first exhibition since the occupation of France, He has worked secretly since 1940.