WEDNESDAY. JANUARY . 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
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By PRESTON McGRAW
Unitod Prtu Inttrnitiontl
Dallas - HUD - Donald S.
Vogel la going to (eel a heavy
tense of loss when he takes a
collection of 54 paintings
down from the walls of his
gallery, even if he manages to
sell the collection for around
$2 million. ,
The 54 paintings are the
late Georges Rouault's "Pas
sion" and depict by contemp
orary plastic means the last
days and crucifixion of Christ.
Professor Has
His Shangri-La
On River Seine
By ALINE MOSBY
Unliid Press International
Paris -(UPD- A retired Amer
lean professor thinks he has
found his Shangri-La.
Ney MacMinn, until . 1960
professor of 19th century Eng.
lish and American literature
at Northwestern university,
lives on a boat on the River
Seine in the heart of Paris,
right under the shadow of the
Eiffel tower.
The slender, amiable pro
fessor believes he has truly
gotten away from it all. No
doorbells, no telephones, no
postman, no car, no radio or
television or even family. In
his houseboat . are only the
things he wanted! Pipe, big
cup of coffee n the table,
phonograph cello, his dog
named Buster, and his belov
ed collection of 6,000 books
lining every wall, including
the bathroom.
The' only sounds are the
clunk of waves against his
boat or the toot of a passing
cargo ship.
His free view is like the set
of a Gene Kelly musical the
tree-lined banks of the river,
the sculptured bridges, the
graceful Eiffel tower in his
"backyard."
"I've become very fond of
that tower," he mused as he
sat before a little coal stove
in his living room. "I've seen
it in rain, in fog, in moonlight
it is constantly changing."
ine professor, twice-divorc
ed and childless, confessed
hed been "thinkins of retir
ing for 30 years." He checked
over many spots, but wanted
to 'live in a big city "where
i could keep my booka and
yet De able to move south
when it got cold."
Boat It Answer
"The logical answer was a
boat," he said. ,
MacMinn purchased his 59
ton, 73-foot boat in Holland.
Paris police gave him a per
mit to park on the Seine next
to French, Dutch and Italian
houseboats a few blocks from
the plush George V hotel.
Soon he will head south for
the winter and, if he feels
like it, travel the network of
placid canals and rivers in
Europe to visit Belgium, Hoi
land, Germany and Austria.
The professor has neatly
beat Paris' high rents. With
a small investment, he con
verted the 1,500 barge into
a snug home with living-dining
room, kitchen, study, two
bedrooms and bathroom. The
kitchen stove and refrigerator
and lamps run on gas but he
plans to buy an electric gen
erator. An American cx-student,
Kim Bartlctt of Washington,
Conn., helped remodel the
boat and will run the motor
on their planned voyage
Hop Cut
Of course, life has not been
100 per cent shlp-shape. Some
rowdies cut the boat's dock
rope and MacMinn floated
helplessly on the river until
rescued by a policcboal. Now
he uses a steel cable.
"I never thought the rock
of the boat would bother me
but when I go ashore I pitch
like a drunken sailor." he
said. "I think everything still
is moving.
"It's also amazing how dirty
this cabin can get, without a
woman's touch ..."
So is he never, lonely?
"I've never been lonely."
he Insisted. "I've always been
happy because I'm self. suffi
cient. I read, I think, I listen
to music or play with the dog.
"I'm gregarious and I've made
many French and American
friends here. I'm organizing
a chamber music group so I
can play my cello. If I'm
alone, then I write in my
diary or I write long letter's
to everyone I know."
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Vogel is the first gallery own
er ever to exhibit them.
He got: the paintings last
February from Paris and since
then has- almost lived with
them. He- framed them in
wormy chestnut, studied them
individually and hung them.
They went on exhibition in
Vogel's Valley House gallery
Nov. 15 and Vogel has spent
many hours studying thcin
collectively. He said they have
almost become an addiction
with him. " - .
As a whole, Vogel sees the
paintings as a sort of sym
phonic poem of four move
ments, the movements con
nected by some paintings
which are used as bridges.
Ambroise Vollard, a French
dealer who discovered Roa
ault, commissioned the "Pas
sion" collection. Rouauit exe
cuted the paintings between
1930 and 1938 to serve as the
source of wood engravings to
illustrate Andre Suares poem
of the "Passion."
82 Paintings
Altogether, Rouauit made
Alan Sound Over To
Grand Jury by Court
Gary Gene Asher, Central
Point, was bound over to the
grand jury after appearing in
Jackson County district court
Monday on charges of bur
glary not in a dwelling.
Asher had waived a pre
liminary hearing.
He was one of two men
charged with entering a serv
ice station on Table Rock rd.
Jan. 4.
82 paintings from which he
made 82 wood engravings. He
later destroyed 28 of the paint
ings, not feeling them to be
of the same quality of the re
maining 54.
The wood engraving illus
trated printing of the poem
was limited; Vollard was kill
ed by a taxi when World War
II broke out. The 54 paintings
went into a vault and few
persons knew they existed.
Vogel said he was told
about the scries in confidence
by one of the handful' of per
sons who had seen it. He had
known about the series 10
yoars when he and Mrs. Vogel
went to Paris in November,
1081, to gel 38 other "virgin"
Rouaults.
Mr. and Mrs. Vogel were at
dinner with Robert de Bolli, a
Ofays if Cradffu2xoim
French collector-dealer, and
Mrs. de Bolli when Vogol
thought of a way to mention
the "Passion" paintings with
out breaking the confidence
of the person who told him
about. them.
Vogel understood that the
De Bollis knew all about the
series. He told them he had
"dreamed" about it-. If there
were such a series, he wanted
to exhibit it in his gallery. De
Bolli was shocked.
Vogel said Mrs. de Bolli
screamed: "No, never! They
are too young."
After the Vogels returned
to Dallas, Mrs. Vogel con
tinued a correspondence with
the De Bollis . and in every
letter Mrs. Vogel said, "Don
ald dreams of 'Passion'."
Then, abruptly, the De Bol
lis notified Vogel they were
shipping him the series. It ar
rived early last February and
Vogel did nothing afterwards
except prepare it for exhibition.
1 962 Job Placements :
Increase 24 Per Cent
Salem -ftPll- Job replace
ments for 1962 increased 24
per cent while claims for un
employment insurance drop
ped 12 per cent, Eldon Cone,
director of the Oregon State
Employment Service, said
Tuesday.
Job-placements for the cal
endar year totaled 507,419,
Cone said.
Claims for unemployment
insurance for the yenr totaled
195,306.
The works are in oil on
heavy rag paper. Each the
same size, 17V4 by 13 inches.
There is 'an inner painting,
surrounded by a blue-green
mat. The size of the inner
paintings varies but Rouauit
varied eacruaiat to form a set
ting for the painting within
and to add cohesiveness to the
series.
Halfway through the series,
Rouauit put the judges of
Christ in modern dress in one
picture, saying that judges to
day probably would act as
they did in Christ's time.
"For me, the Rouauit -Passion'
is comparable to the
famous Scrovegni Chapel at
Padua where Giotto immortal
ized himself with his scenes
of the life of Christ," De Bolli
wrote for the catalogue of the
exhibition.
"For proof, I need only the
head of Christ, No. 58 in Rou
ault's numbering (the paint
ings are numbered irregular
ly). I have seen large faces of
Christ from this artist, painted
in full palette, that do not at
tain the grandeur of this head,
sublime in its abnegation,
where the crown of thorns is
represented by only a few
strokes of the aureole scarcely
indicated, while the wounds
and the blood of Christ are
evoked by the abstraction of
the red line that follows the
matting."
The collection is insured for
$2 million. Vogel was sup
posed to end the exhibition
Dec. 21, but because of inter
est in it, he extended the ex
hibition into February.
If not sold before the Feb
ruary return : date deadline,
the collection, has to be re
turned to the Vollard collec
tion in Paris. The 54 paintings
must be sold in a "package"
and not separately.
Central Point Man Is
Returned To Yreka
Robert Lee Parnell, 22, ot
route 2, box 198A, Central
Point, was returned to Yreka,
Calif., yesterday to faca
charges of auto theft, accord
ing to state police. ,
Parnell was arrested in tlia
Four Corners area here Mon
day night by slate police. Ha
is charged with taking a car
from Yreka.
He signed a waiver of ex
tradition, police said.
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