"Hullo! What's this? What are these funny brown-and-olive landscapes doing in an impressionist exhibition? Brown! I ask you? Isn't it absurd for a man to go on using brown and call himself an impressionist painter?"
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Rutter satirising the reaction of fans of impressionist art on seeing Cézanne's work in London in 1905.
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Frank Rutter
Francis Vane Phipson Rutter (17 February 1876 – 18 April 1937) was a British art art critic, curator and activist.
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