International studio (22.1904)

influence that the Salon
known as the Champ de
Mars came into existence.
M. Roll has a fancy for
posing his models where
the sun plays upon them,
arriving at some of the
most delightful effects from
the shadows that the trees
and grasses cast upon the
figure. His pastels espe-
cially enable us to appre-
ciate him as a painter of
healthy, sound ideas. He
gives the sensation of
truth; a sensation the
more acute as the art of
the present day is tainted
by the sickly degen-
erate sensitiveness that
surrounds us in each
branch, in literature, music,

painting and sculpture.
The scent of dead flowers
cannot attract a nature
as robust as M. Roll's.
The studies of the nude
show him in all the
strength and grace of his
art. The laughing girl (at
the Zurich Museum), that
charming figure with the
sunlight caressing it, spark-
ling in the eyes and
hair, is painted in one of
M. Roll's happiest moods;
the property of
M. Marnier, of Brussels,
a big-framed woman bowed
with grief;
belonging to M. Lipp-
rnann, the son-in-law of
Alexandre Dumas fils, the
modern expression of a-
biblical subject. These
works require no explana-
tion. They are as clear
as crystal, treated without
vulgarity, the flesh painted
with splidity; the life, the
colour admirable, thrillingly
brilliant.


STUDY OF A GIRL FROM THE PASTEL BY A. P. ROLI
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NUDE STUDY ^^ ) BY A. P. ROLL