International studio (22.1904)

The metal work illus-
trated on pages 341 to 344
of the January number,
from designs by Mr. Claude
New, was all carried out
for a house at Richmond,
Surrey, by Mr. Dendy
Wray, of the firm of Blunt
& Wray.
H "^ARIS.—Each suc-
H ^ ceeding annual
exhibition of the
Socidte Inter-
nationale still further con-
firms the impression that
the vitality of this group is
steadily diminishing, and
that there is nothing left
but for it to disappear
On page 73 we give an illustration of a drawing entirely. A few exceptions apart, one finds oneself
entitled ^4 by Mr. T. M. constantly face to face with what may be styled
Heaton, a clever pupil of the Herkomer School the " Seen-already " — mediocre work which
at Bushey. _ one would really like better were it absolutely bad,
but which simply is clear evidence of a played-
An exhibition of drawings, unusual both in its out tendency. What is to be said of M. Bouchor,
character and its excellence, has been held in the or M. Legout-Gerard, or M. Dagnaux, or M. Fouri<§,
Goupil Gallery. There were in it exqui- or M. Gosselin, unless it be this : that they are
site examples of such masters as Millet, Diaz, merely marking time; that, beyond the
Rousseau, Corot, Daubigny, and Jacque; of there is nothing in their work? The great interest
Mr. R. Fowler, Mr. F.
Mura, Mr Muirhead Bone,
and Mr. Linley Sam-
bourne; of Mr. Leslie
Thomson, Mr. Austen
Brown, Mr. Moffat
Lindner, Mr. George
Thomson, Mr. Mark Fisher,
Mr. Buxton Knight, Mr.
Montague Smyth, Mr.
R. W. Allan, and Mr.
H. B. Brabazon. But
quite the most attrac-
tive section of the show
was the group of Whistler
drawings —admirably selec-
ted illustrations of Ms
rare skill as a draughts-
man, and of his wonderful
control over refinements
of modelling and line
arrangement.



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''DERNIERES PENSEES

BY A. RODIN.