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MONS. COQUEHN

BY R. BERTRAND

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never fetched a hundred pounds—it is even stated
that fifty pounds was the most ever realised in a
London saie. Of course, there could be cited
many instances of the converse tendency. The
records we pubiish from time to time of prices
reaiised at picture sates show that "slumps" are
not by any means uncommon; but we do not
remember any to match this extreme osciliation in
the case of Franz Ha!s. The " swing of the pen-
du!um" as it affects artistic reputations would
make a very interesting study.

UBLIN.—Mr. W. P. French
) H is a water-colour painter of
W much charm and individu-
** ality, whose studies of the
damp skies and breezy bogtands of his
native Roscommon have !ong been
familiar to the frequenters of Irish
exhibitions,

though out-
side Ireland
t h e y a r e
pr obab!y
little known.
Much of
the attrac-
tiveness o f
Mr. French's
work ties in
its unity of
feeling and
entirely per-
sonal inspiration, while
his sensitiveness to
atmospheric effect is
expressed in the ]iquid
quality of his painting,
in which the delicate
half-tones in the "veils
of air"are rendered with
an intimate perception
of their evanescent
beauty. E. D.

H ^ARIS.—Although
] by the time
these lines are
^ published the
Salon des Humoristes will
have already been closed
for several weeks, the Ex-
hibition has been of too
great interest to make it
possible to pass it over
without some notice and
some words of encourage-
ment in THE STUDio, for

" MORTON"
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