DOI Heft:
No.141 (November, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28256#0090
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deiineate French society at that period. One can
onty hope that the Societe des Humoristes wilt
continue to give us these retrospective exhibitions
which so admirabiy show the strain of parentage
which may exist between the art of yesterday and
that of to day.
I noticed that many artists this year found them-
selves attracted to scuipture. The greatest measure
of success has attended M. Poulbot, with his
" L'itcoie." This cieverartist hit upon the amusing
idea of dressing up a number of littie stufifed dolis
with fiexibie parts and of grouping them very
successfuily in most lifelike attitudes on the benches
of a miniature schooi. One has seldom seen the
characteristic poses and expressions of chiidren
more cieveriy rendered. M. Rene Bcrtrand has
STAtNED-GLASS WINDOW/tOMMEMORATING CHAMFLAIN's VOYAGE 'J
TO CANADA IN 1608. DESIGNED BY R. FREIDA & LEON LECLERC.
EXECUTED BY F. GAUDIN FOR THE MUSEE DU VIEUX HONFLEUR *L
/T ADRID.—Jaime Morera, a
< % / H pupil of Haes, is a Spanish
! W n gentieman of means and
^ ieisure, who paints be-
cause he ioves painting, and who paints
the mountains of Spain because they
are the naturai scenery which most
appeais to him. He is, if I may use
the term, a speciaiist in mountain-
painting. He has his reasons for this
hobby, and has expiained them to me.
The ioneliness of mountain iife, par-
ticuiariy in Spain, the exquisite purity
of the air, the fascinating light and
shade effects upon the marveilous and
mystic heights—ail these appear to
Morera to constitute the nobiest
made a speciaiity of his statuettes of theatrical
personages, the actor Coquelin, the comedian
Morton, Yvette Guilbert, Dranem, Wright, ah are
quaintly caricatured by him in his clever modeh.
One must also give a place of honour to M.
Gairaud, the author of the amusing little coloured
statuettes representing M. Fallieres, Fragson, Santos-
Dumont, and other well-known people. Very clever,
too, is the frieze portraying rare birds carved in
wood by M. Realier-Dumas, of which a reproduc-
tion appears on the preceding page. H. F.
Canadian readers of THE STUDio will be in-
terested in our reproduction of a stained-glass
window at Honfleur representing incidents with
which the recent tercentenary celebration at Quebec
has made everyone familiar. The lower panel shows
" How Samuel de Champlain departed
once more from HonHeur to take
possession of the new territories of
Canada" in April, 1608, and in the
panel above he is represented in the
act of receiving presents at the hands
of the native Indians while his men
are busy constructing the foundations
of his house—the germ out of which
the future city of Quebec developed.
In the course of these 300 years Hon-
Heur has undergone comparatively little
change, and many of the buildings
existing in Champlain's day are practi-
cal'y the same now as when he bade
adieu to the port. His portrait as it
appears in these panels is from one
preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale
in Paris.
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deiineate French society at that period. One can
onty hope that the Societe des Humoristes wilt
continue to give us these retrospective exhibitions
which so admirabiy show the strain of parentage
which may exist between the art of yesterday and
that of to day.
I noticed that many artists this year found them-
selves attracted to scuipture. The greatest measure
of success has attended M. Poulbot, with his
" L'itcoie." This cieverartist hit upon the amusing
idea of dressing up a number of littie stufifed dolis
with fiexibie parts and of grouping them very
successfuily in most lifelike attitudes on the benches
of a miniature schooi. One has seldom seen the
characteristic poses and expressions of chiidren
more cieveriy rendered. M. Rene Bcrtrand has
STAtNED-GLASS WINDOW/tOMMEMORATING CHAMFLAIN's VOYAGE 'J
TO CANADA IN 1608. DESIGNED BY R. FREIDA & LEON LECLERC.
EXECUTED BY F. GAUDIN FOR THE MUSEE DU VIEUX HONFLEUR *L
/T ADRID.—Jaime Morera, a
< % / H pupil of Haes, is a Spanish
! W n gentieman of means and
^ ieisure, who paints be-
cause he ioves painting, and who paints
the mountains of Spain because they
are the naturai scenery which most
appeais to him. He is, if I may use
the term, a speciaiist in mountain-
painting. He has his reasons for this
hobby, and has expiained them to me.
The ioneliness of mountain iife, par-
ticuiariy in Spain, the exquisite purity
of the air, the fascinating light and
shade effects upon the marveilous and
mystic heights—ail these appear to
Morera to constitute the nobiest
made a speciaiity of his statuettes of theatrical
personages, the actor Coquelin, the comedian
Morton, Yvette Guilbert, Dranem, Wright, ah are
quaintly caricatured by him in his clever modeh.
One must also give a place of honour to M.
Gairaud, the author of the amusing little coloured
statuettes representing M. Fallieres, Fragson, Santos-
Dumont, and other well-known people. Very clever,
too, is the frieze portraying rare birds carved in
wood by M. Realier-Dumas, of which a reproduc-
tion appears on the preceding page. H. F.
Canadian readers of THE STUDio will be in-
terested in our reproduction of a stained-glass
window at Honfleur representing incidents with
which the recent tercentenary celebration at Quebec
has made everyone familiar. The lower panel shows
" How Samuel de Champlain departed
once more from HonHeur to take
possession of the new territories of
Canada" in April, 1608, and in the
panel above he is represented in the
act of receiving presents at the hands
of the native Indians while his men
are busy constructing the foundations
of his house—the germ out of which
the future city of Quebec developed.
In the course of these 300 years Hon-
Heur has undergone comparatively little
change, and many of the buildings
existing in Champlain's day are practi-
cal'y the same now as when he bade
adieu to the port. His portrait as it
appears in these panels is from one
preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale
in Paris.
62