International studio (25.1905)

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surpassed in their charm of handling and in their
rendering of qualities of texture and colour. Besides
these, the show also included some admirable por-
traits, and a number of fanciful figure compositions
which can be instanced as masterly arrangements
of line and most ingenious presentations of well-
imagined motives.

M. Le Sidaner has been
showing at the Goupil Gal-
lery a representative set of
his oil paintings and pastels.
These pictures must be
noted as examples of the
best kind of impressionism
— brilliant and scholarly
technical exercises with un-
usual beauty of colour and
effect, and distinguished by
a very personal application
of the particular mannerism
of the school. M. Le
Sidaner avoids the exaggerations of method which
lead many of his fellow impressionists into what
almost amounts to affectation, and arrives, by
certain devices of handling, and by the use of a
system of colour subdivision which he has more or
less evolved for himself, at results which are more
than ordinarily convincing. This exhibition showed
the variety and the strength of his practice, and by

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We give designs from the
Swedish studio in Glouces-
ter Road, in which are
shown examples of work
done by Swedish peasantry
and also original modern
work. Of especial merit are
the two designs by Miss
Clary Hahr, under whose
management the studio is
run.


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BY CLARY HAHR