International studio (26.1905)

In the Simberg Exhibi-
tion the most remarkable
work was the canvas en-
titled Za ZwA? Z?
Rissanen, who made a very
successful 4%%%/ at the Uni-
versal Exhibition of 1900,
showed some rural scenes
with typical figures treated
without any idealisation, in
fact with almost brutal
truth. His -SpaWTMT'
is sincere and almost
cruelly realistic.

" SUMMER NIGHT"
important works of no great interest. Edelfelt
was represented by some good portraits, but Gallen
sent only one study. To this, however,
Halonen was a marked exception. His
principal work was a fairly large painting,
a sketch for the mural fresco of Zf THwatY
in the Bjorneborg Mausoleum. This
decorative composition is a very elabo-
rate and conscientious piece of work, per-
haps somewhat wanting in movement and
life considering the subject chosen. The
colouring is in alowkey, all the tones being
variations of grey, representing a beautiful
snow effect in dull and cloudy weather.

BY MAGNUS ENCKEI.L
and canvases, shown
representing scenes

A word of recognition is
due to the very remarkable
at this exhibition of a
young artist, A. Faven, who
had already shown great
promise in some studies
at some preceding exhibitions,
from peasant life. What he

Other noteworthy exhibitors were
Jarnefelt, Enckell and Simberg. The
first, who reappeared after an absence of
two years, contributed a beautiful series
of portraits in water-colour, some good
landscapes, and one picture, in
which he has interpreted the Finland
peasant with simple truth to nature.

Enckell is a dreamer and a poet, who
happily interprets by means of somewhat
subdued and grey colouring, the tender
and melancholy landscapes of his native
country. His water-colour, ^4 &77777ZF7*
A%7% refle.cts with rare felicity the in-
tangible yet most enthralling effect of the
night upon the sea.

BY PEKKA HALONEN
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