"His voice turned sad. He pulled out paintings of blocklike ochre rocks and cut cliffs of a quarry, one after another.

"'The Bibémus quarry near here,' he says. 'I painted it from the upper story of a cabanon I rented. Without it being right there in a field, I would not have been able to get this view. But dealers don't like quarries. They aren't pretty like the Impressionists' picnics. They don't understand their importance.'

"'But Julien Tanguy understood?'

"'The only one. He saw what I did, that I painted the earth's structure manipulated by man, yet all in harmony.'