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[[underline]] GASTON LOUIS ROUX [[/underline]] 
Born in 1904 at Provins, France. Exhibited in Paris. - In the Art News - 2/6/32, he is described as "one of the more emancipated of our modern painters - said to be an out-and-out surrealist, running after the bizarre like Miro, and mocking the obvious at every turn. His canvases are filled with 'painter's quality' and his compositions are intricate and often imposing." He is said to be well known in Paris and New York. 

* [[underline]] RENEE SINTENIS [[/underline]]
"Renee Weiss-Sintenis was born in Silesia in 1888. Studied at the Berlin School of Arts and Crafts between 1908-1911. Lambs, fauns, kids, young camels and elephants, calves, foals, cubs and puppies - a long series of little bronzes whose unpretentious charm make comment superfluous and their creator the most distinguished German sculptress. She has also done more 'serious' work." 

Sintenis is represented by sculpture in the museums of twenty-seven cities, including Denver; Detroit; Chicago; The Hague; London; Oslo; Rotterdam; Helsingford; Stockholm and Vienna. 

[[underline]] JULIUS KOMJATI [[/underline]] 
Hungarian - Born 1894. 

The following is quoted from an article by Malcolm C. Salaman, entitled "The Etchings of Julius Komjati" published in London in Volume XX of the Print Collector's Quarterly (1933): 

Julius Komjati, who practised etching with distinction in Budapest, was most familiar of all to British connoisseurs and collectors, and one of the rare instances of a continental artist [[underline]] being elected to our Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers.[[/underline]] Of all the young Hungarian etchers, full of artistic enthusiasm, with independent vision and conception, searching for national characteristic expression, perhaps none is more personal in his work than Komjati, his every plate being vitalized by a genuine spiritual emotion, which with the pure and traditional technique that would seem to be his natural idiom, makes for mastery. Yet the dominant characteristic of his graphic expression is poetic simplicity, though in almost every instance the utterance suggests an unhappy beauty, but it is a very genuine poetry, coming direct from the man himself, still painfully scarred by his war experiences, yet always anxious to shake off their haunting memories, and to live hopefully in the happy smiles of life."