International studio (16.1902)

Studio- Talk

among other things, a fancy portrait of Rejane in
oils, revealing high qualities.

At Georges Petit’s, too, vve have had a dis-
play of new works by M. Antoon van Welie,
several of whose canvases have been reproduced in
The Studio. There were forty canvases shown—
portraits, pictures, wash-drawings, water-colours and
pastels—wherein M. van Welie revealed himself to
the Parisian public both as a portrait-painter of
surest touch and vision and as an evoker of legends
and a poet of the finest sensibility. M. Antoon
van Welie is, indeed, an artist of so distinct a
personality that I hope soon to have a further
opportunity of dealing with him and his work.

The “Societe Nouvelle de Peintres et de Sculp-
teurs ” boasts three new members about whose
abilities there is happily no question, namely,
MM. J. E. Blanche, A. de la Gandara, and

Ignazio Zuloaga. The next exhibition by ^’S
group will be held at Georges Petit’s from ^ -
14th of March to the 2nd of April.
G. M.
VIENNA.—Last year eight of the chief 1®^
artists and sculptors here made a 1U"
departure by having an exhibition at the
Salon Pisko, all to themselves, of tl>e|r
works and those of invited lady artists ; and 1 |:
proved so successful that the experiment has bee’
repeated this year, but with this difference 1 ^
they have done their best to make it internatio11'
though few foreigners have responded. Among [ ^
lady artists in Vienna the most prominent P°r ‘
painter is Marie Miiller, whose Study of a .
Head is very charming, the girl’s dark wavy ^
forming a beautiful background to the well-cut a'1
finely depicted face. Her portrait of Austria’s ce
brated authoress, Marie Ebner von EschenbaC .


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THE “TOOROP” ROOM AT THE RECENT VIENNA SECESSIONISTS’ EXHIBITION