International studio (16.1902)

Studio- Talk


“APRfcS LE DEJEUNER” BY RENE PRINET

and prominent among the sculptors were Braecke,
De Rudder, and Boncquet. M. Ph. Wolfers dis-
played a large number of things all remarkable for
their delicate colouring; while M. A. Lynen—a
draughtsman essentially of the true Brussels type,
and deserving of more detailed notice in these
pages some day—sent a drawing full of charm and
retrospective sentiment, Yperdamme, and a set of
illustrations for a story by himself, entitled “ Le
Jacquemart de la Tour du Pre-Rouge.”
F. K.
PARIS.—The present art season may be
regarded as, if not one of the best, at
least one of the most brilliant we have had
for a long time. During several months
past there have been more than twenty exhibitions
opened in Paris. Some would be for a week,
others for a fortnight, and no sooner was one

closed than another took its place. It is indeed a
fat year. During the present year at least ten new
galleries have been started. High up at the back
of some obscure courtyard people now take two or
three small, badly-lighted rooms, and pompously
style them “galleries”! One such comes into
existence every week. Here, singly or in groups
of two or three, our artists display their latest pro-
ductions before the public. But with all the will
in the world it becomes more and more difficult
for the critic to keep himself in close touch with
an artistic movement so feverish and so fertile.

At the Grand Palais the “Societe amicale des
Boursiers de Voyage et des Prix du Salon,”
in order to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the establishment of the “bourses de voyage,” or
“ travelling scholarships,” organised an exhibition
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