In 1926, the Galerie Druet in Paris made waves presenting a group of young painters, consisting of an international group of artists: Christian B rard and Th r se Debains, both French; Russians Pavel Tchelitchew and the brothers Eugene and Leonid Berman; and the Dutchman Kristians Tonny. These artists had spurned modernist abstraction and returned to a form of figurative painting. For most of them, this was the first time they had exhibited, but...