International studio (16.1902)

Studio- Talk

d’etoffes anciennes reunies et decrites
par Mme. Isabelle Errera,” con-
stitutes a real “ document.”

The Cercle Artistique of Brussels,
wishing to render a last tribute to
the lamented sculptor, P. Devigne,
untimely removed from the sphere
he so greatly honoured, lately
arranged an exhibition of some forty
of his works and studies. This dis-
play impressed one strongly, yet
subtly, for the deceased artist had a
vietie?- which was incomparably
certain.


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BY PHILIPPE WOLFERS


tUADEM FOR THE HAIR BY PHILIPPE WOLFERS

Paul Devigne produced many important works,
Notably the Breydel and Deconinck monument in
Bruges; the group on the facade of the Palais des
^eaux-Arts in Brussels ; and the funereal monu-
ment of the Metdepenningen family in Ghent.
the same time it is certain that he expressed
Ourself best in his less-known, his more intime,
'v°rk. At the exhibition in question, one saw a
§raceful figure, IJImmortalite (the marble is in
Ihe Musee de Bruxelles); the charming bust
Tyche (of which the replica in ivory was repro-
ved some years since in The Studio) ; several
studies —young Romans of proud and graceful

demeanour, old Flemish men with hard, coarse
faces—and finally (the most remarkable thing
in a most interesting exhibition), the bust of the
Brussels painter, Eugene Smits, which is simply
a masterpiece.
The annual exhibition of the Belgian Society of


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