ABSTRACT
When Fry became editor of the Burlington Magazine he decided to increase the amount of space devoted to modern art. One of his first efforts in this direction was to translate an article first printed in L’Occident by Maurice Denis (1870-1943), painter, theorist and friend of Cézanne. This Fry published in two parts with illustrations from Cézanne’s work. Denis’s article stressed Cézanne’s ‘classic’ status in modern art and this article, together with Meier-Graefe’s Modern Art (see no. 6), became the principal sources of information for the British when faced with the new art of Post-Impressionism.
