The Old Card

THE OLD CARD
THE OLD CARD
ROLAND PERTWEE
BONI AND LIVERIGHT
New York 1919
Published, 1919,
By BONI & LIVERIGHT, Inc.
Printed in the U.S.A.
MY SON
AND HIS GODFATHER
HENRY AINLEY
A visit to any modern French Art Gallery will reveal a number of canvases daubed all over with little patches of primary colours, almost as though the picture had been painted with confetti. Assuming you are unaccustomed to this form of application, you will declare against it with insular promptitude. But give the picture a chance—step back and view it from the far wall, and like as not you will find that these chaotic colours have blended and commingled, have ceased to exist as individual items and become merged in a single statement of meaning the artist intended to convey.