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SELECTED REVIEWS
1938 - 1994
The first printed
reference to Rasmus Skov was in connection with the opening of the
invitational group exhibition at the Salon Des Collectioneurs in Nice,
France in 1938 at which he participated concurrently with his first one-man
exhibition of paintings in Paris in May and June of that year. The
following selected and annotated reviews of Skov’s exhibitions illustrate
the contemporary art critics’ views about his work starting in 1938. These
exhibition reviews and art critics’ commentary are of interest not just for
the information and opinion they contain about Skov’s work, but also
because they indicate the diversity of critical feedback he received at the
time. Where the original texts were in Danish, French or German they were
translated, and where doubts existed about the date or name of publication
or the name of the author this has been indicated by [*].
With the opening of
the Collector’s Group Exhibition at the “Salon Des Collectioneurs” in Nice, France during May 1938, Skov unexpectedly found himself
mentioned among the elite of the established modern painters. A noted
French art critic, Lucienne Sardina, wrote:
“Yesterday at 15 o’clock at the Brea Salon the opening of the exhibition
of modern paintings called “Le Salon Des Collectioneurs” took place,
organized by the Maison de la Culture. It is the first time the Maison de
la Culture undertakes the organization of a manifestation of this
magnitude. For a first time it is a master stroke. To develop an exhibition
with such homogeneity is an arduous task and really remarkable, thus it is
appropriate to congratulate the organizers; not just for the intelligent
and artistic fashion with which the works have been hung, but especially
for the judicious selection thereof. All the schools, all the techniques
are represented. It is a veritable pleasure for the knowledgeable and a
serious artistic education for the artists, that thus can admire and
compare masters such as: [listing of 68 painters including Andre Albert, Cezanne,
Chirico, Courbet, Dagas, Derain, Raoul Dufy, Feininger, Mario Garnero,
Gauguin, Gromaire, Max Jacob, Marcel Jallot, Klee, Kokoschka, Marie
Laurencin, Marcel Lenoir, Lhote, Maillot, Manet, Frantz Marc, Matisse,
Metzinger, Palmeiro, Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Odilon Redon, Picabia,
Rasmus Skov, Renoir, Severini, Signac, Toulouse-Lautrec, Utrillo, Vertes,
Vlaminck]. The largest names among the contemporary painters are
represented. What a sage teaching one could give the young who have the
illusion to believe that they are masters of the art, that they have made
sensational discoveries in this domain; these young ones who knows all,
comprehends all, understands everything.
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