International studio (18.1902/1903)

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LADY IK ROSE^ BY JULES CHERET

for pictorial effects, acquired a styie of landscape-
drawing fu!l of genuine individuality. E. E.
7IENNA.—The "Manes" Exhibition,which
% / the " Hagenbund" has recently given,
%/ affords us the opportunity of judging of
' the work of the youngest Czech society of
artists, who have done well in calling themselves
" Manes," after the celebrated Bohemian artist
Manes, who died some thirty years ago but whose
works still live in his native city, Prague.
Among the many portraits exhibited, those by
Max Svabinsky, by their vigour, freshness, and
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truth, and by the thought and originality of tech-
nique they display, place him in the foremost
rank of portrait delineators. He does not
work with the brush, but with the pen, and
when his drawing is finished he just touches
it with water-colours. Among the artist's
best work is the <27? JA277, here
reproduced ; a sketch of the artist's wife sitting
on a sofa; and the life-size half-length picture
of a woman dressed in a Scotch plaid gown.
When Rodin lately held his exhibition in
Prague tne Manes Society brought out a special
work in his honour, the dedication page being

"B]T OF OLD TRAGUE" BY Z. BRAUNEROVA