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How they must be confounded in front of the works of their elders,
in front of these works where the serious pursuit of the craft is felt in
the minutest detail; these works that one cannot contemplate without being
moved. That was, at least yesterday, the general impression of all the
visitors, among whom we recognized M. Maillard, director of l’Ecole
Nationale d’Art Decoratif,...[etc., with listing of visiting dignitaries]”.
[Lucienne Sardina, Le Journal de
Nice*, Nice, 2* May, 1938].
Writing in June 1938
for the influential Danish newspaper “Politiken” the well known Danish art
critic, Andreas Vinding, after visiting Skov’s exhibition at “Galerie
Madeline Baker” in Paris, recognized in Skov’s paintings from La Colle a
“honest and clean artist [in his] search for the simplification of the
object and color”, adding “he has promise” and commenting as follows:
“Another Danish artist, Rasmus Skov, exhibits 28 paintings in Mademoiselle
Baker’s newly opened art gallery. Although from Fyn and already 30 years old Rasmus Skov has never exhibited in Denmark. He studied with Georg Schrimpf in Munich and has, during his stays of long duration in France, continued to search for the simplification of
the object and color. His paintings show us an honest and clean artist,
still a bit slender in his expression that is aiming towards naivete. Skov
ought to let this first exhibition be followed by others and take the hits
the world gives him. He has promise”. [Andreas
Vinding (“Vinden”), Politiken, Copenhagen, 12
June, 1938].
A short but
succinct review of the same exhibition by a French art critic with a keen
sense for Skov’s evolving Neo-cubist development expressed some
reservations about the resulting feeling of visual “dryness and
detachment”, but also noted approvingly that “this artist researches a
concise expression” and that “The succinct paintings of Rasmus Skov are
sometimes evocative”: “Rasmus Skov
- This artist researches a
concise expression through a way of painting developed in flat tonalities.
Here cubism gives the hand to the art of the poster. The succinct paintings
of Rasmus Skov are sometimes evocative. But their dryness and their
detachment often leaves them in the ranking of exercises without weight.
[Galerie Madeline Baker]”. [Anon.,
Le Figaro*, 10* June, 1938]
Towards the end of
the 1938 one-man exhibition in Paris the Western regional Danish paper,
“Jydske Tidende”, pridefully published the following short biographical
article: “The Painter Rasmus Skov - An outstanding and promising young
artist from Strib, who appears to have a great future. As noted, the artist
Rasmus Skov has spent the last winter at the French Mediterranean
Coast and subsequently has arranged an exhibition of
his work in Paris, where he has obtained so great a success, that
he received the flattering request to extend the duration of the
exhibition. The exhibition is held at Gallery Baker, and the success
obtained has been further proven, since the exhibited works by the
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