Unsigned review, ‘The Last Phase of Impressionism’

The 8th annual exhibition of the International Society in January and February 1908 contained one of Van Gogh’s watercolour studies of a weaver, a picture entitled Pommes et Pains, possibly Un Dessert (1873-7: Philadelphia Museum of Art) and another still life by Cézanne, Gauguin’s Haere-Pape (1892: Barnes Foundation, Merion), together with pictures by Signac, Cross and, paradoxically, the first work of Matisse to be shown outside France — an oil entitled La Jetée à Collioure. This review acted as a stimulus to Roger Fry’s first public pronouncement of his views on Post-Impressionist art (see no. 3).