International studio (20.1903)

"LA FEAHtE AUX I'AONS" BY ALBERT BAUL BESXARD

all their freshness of colour and airy gestures, are
but the modern type of the dancing girl.
In 7%7*fF exhibited at the salon of
1902, he once more reveals himself as a great
master. The nude figure of a woman is curled
into a deep silvery chair, tinsel, spangles and satin
glimmering at her side. Her feet are resting on a
large fur rug. At the back the moonlight through
the casement touches the pearl in the inlaid cabi-
net, and it is in this background that M. Besnard
has put his best work and all the poetry-of his idea.
Although we are not moved to the same degree
in the <7/ ykfaw. ./%.f7M7-<f, the wife of the
artist, that figures in the salon of this year, there is

the sensation of strength and charm in the blacks
in the silk dress and the ruffle at the throat; in the
beauty of the hands, soft, white and dimpled; in
the silvery light on the polished floor, drawn with
a master's hand in the plenitude of its power.
FRANCES KEYZER.

WE have been asked to state that in connection
with the important Arts and Crafts Exhibition now
being organised at Elgin, to mark the inauguration
of Colonel Cooper's gift to the city of a public
Library and Museum, the honorary secretaries are
anxious to secure good examples of work from all
art centres.

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