ABSTRACT
Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952) was the secretary of the first Post-Impressionist exhibition. Together with Fry he went to Paris in the summer of 1910 to choose pictures for the exhibition and went on alone to find more in Munich and Holland. His introduction, composed from notes supplied by Roger Fry, was much quoted in contemporary reviews and in particular his remark about a rocking horse having more of the ‘true horse’ about it than a ‘photograph of the Derby winner’.
