DOI issue:
No. 137 (July, 1908)
DOI article:Frantz, Henri: The Salon of the Société Nationale, Paris, 1
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28255#0087
The Salon of the Societe Nationale
“CEREMONIE RELIGIEUSE DANS LA CATHEDRALE i/aSSISE ’’
BY LUCIEN SIMON
worthy of the greatest masters of this branch of
painting; M. Le Sidaner is represented by land-
scape work ; M. Desmoulin by some charming and
brilliant sketches ; Mme. Dubufe-Wherle by a bold
nude study and beautiful portrait of a child. M.
J. Blanche sends several fine and interesting por-
traits, and M. Ulmann some excellent seascapes.
Several interesting decorations on a large scale
are to be seen this year. M. Roll, the eminent
President of the Societe Nationale, gives precise
indication of his evolution towards idealism. This
fine painter puts his great gifts as a colourist at
the service of his lofty philosophic imagination.
Vers la Nature pour VHumanite—such is the title
of this decorative ensemble, which, alike for its
philosophic tendency and for its successful realisa-
tion, constitutes one of his finest works. M.
Maurice Denis is the author of a large decoration
in three parts. Under flowering trees one beholds
circling visions of young women and children in
white. It is evident that the artist, who has pro-
duced much delightful work, has a praiseworthy
sincerity and a decorative feeling which manifests
itself in the really fascinating arrangement of these
bloom-laden trees, but I confess I am chilled by
the coldness of his tone.
M. Francis Auburtin last year achieved a great
success—one of those successes which should in-
timidate an artist; this year he remains worthy of
himself in this most delicate domain of decorative
painting. The size of the hall in which his panel
is placed admits of its being seen at a good
distance ; thus one can grasp the delicious harmony
of the picture, in which the bluish light from the
bodies of the nude women plays on a pool, amid
the swans and the water-lilies. M. Auburtin is at
his best in distributing his coloured masses with a
view to the general impression; the balance of
his work is perfect, small detail being subordinated
to the realisation of the decorative whole.
M. Jean Veber has done a “grande Kermesse,”
in the spirit of Teniers and Breughal, for the buvette
of the Hotel de Ville. This work, most delicately
drawn, and painted in light and delicate coatings,
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“CEREMONIE RELIGIEUSE DANS LA CATHEDRALE i/aSSISE ’’
BY LUCIEN SIMON
worthy of the greatest masters of this branch of
painting; M. Le Sidaner is represented by land-
scape work ; M. Desmoulin by some charming and
brilliant sketches ; Mme. Dubufe-Wherle by a bold
nude study and beautiful portrait of a child. M.
J. Blanche sends several fine and interesting por-
traits, and M. Ulmann some excellent seascapes.
Several interesting decorations on a large scale
are to be seen this year. M. Roll, the eminent
President of the Societe Nationale, gives precise
indication of his evolution towards idealism. This
fine painter puts his great gifts as a colourist at
the service of his lofty philosophic imagination.
Vers la Nature pour VHumanite—such is the title
of this decorative ensemble, which, alike for its
philosophic tendency and for its successful realisa-
tion, constitutes one of his finest works. M.
Maurice Denis is the author of a large decoration
in three parts. Under flowering trees one beholds
circling visions of young women and children in
white. It is evident that the artist, who has pro-
duced much delightful work, has a praiseworthy
sincerity and a decorative feeling which manifests
itself in the really fascinating arrangement of these
bloom-laden trees, but I confess I am chilled by
the coldness of his tone.
M. Francis Auburtin last year achieved a great
success—one of those successes which should in-
timidate an artist; this year he remains worthy of
himself in this most delicate domain of decorative
painting. The size of the hall in which his panel
is placed admits of its being seen at a good
distance ; thus one can grasp the delicious harmony
of the picture, in which the bluish light from the
bodies of the nude women plays on a pool, amid
the swans and the water-lilies. M. Auburtin is at
his best in distributing his coloured masses with a
view to the general impression; the balance of
his work is perfect, small detail being subordinated
to the realisation of the decorative whole.
M. Jean Veber has done a “grande Kermesse,”
in the spirit of Teniers and Breughal, for the buvette
of the Hotel de Ville. This work, most delicately
drawn, and painted in light and delicate coatings,
69