International studio (40.1910)

Studio- Talk

"LA DANSE SACREE" BY J. VICTOR SEGOFFIN

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by craftsmanship of great decision
and absolute conscientiousness.

An exhibition of the work of
Toulouse-Lautrec has been organ-
ized in the Musee des Arts Deco-
ratifs. True, it is not the first
time that we have seen an
ensemble of the works of this
artist, but we are far from wish-
ing to complain. Toulouse-
Lautrec is one of those men
whose work demands fresh study
and merits to be daily better
known, for he was in truth one
of those who twenty-five years
ago strove to raise art from
the lifeless routine of pseudo-
classicism. He displays in his
pictures, despite a certain coarse-
ness which strikes one disagree-
ably at times, a very keen
appreciation of the beauty of
line. His profiles of Mdlle.
Yahne, Miss Bedford, of Yvette
Guilbert, are powerfully drawn
in a style in which he approaches
to the work of the greatest
masters of line.

In art circles in Paris things
have been at a standstill for
some time, but now they are
resuming their normal course
again. In the Berne-Bellecourt
Galleries there has been a very
interesting show of work by a
few chosen artists M. Jules
Adler's delightful little pictures
were a feature of the exhibition.
Eugene Chigot is becoming
more and more a colourist in his
eloquent landscapes of French
Flanders, and the landscapes of
M. Jacques Simon also call for
notice in this excellent show, as
do the Arab Encampment by
Henri Rousseau, the Mother and
Child, by Wery, and the strong
and very personal impressions
of Versailles, by M. Aries. The
sculpture of M. Desruelles added
to this exhibition the charm of
their pure execution. H. F.