International studio (40.1910)

The Socidtd des Peintres et Sculpteurs

THE EXHIBITION OF THE shown by the artist in preceding years—the portrait

SOCIETE DES PEINTRES ET of Mme. Besnard or his Merie intime for instance,

SCULPTEURS IN PARIS k°tn of which aroused a great deal of attention;
nevertheless all the paintings shown here were ex-

This Society of painters and sculptors, formerly ceedingly fine and of great warmth of tone and

known as the Societe' Nouvelle, is to-day emphati- very beautiful in handling. The one that attracted

cally the most homogeneous and the strongest of my attention the most was entitled Le p?-emier

all the numerous societies whose various exhibi- Acte, showing two ladies in evening dress in the

tions follow one after the other in the Paris galleries. semi-darkness of a box at the theatre. His other

There is in fact no group, with the exception of exhibits, Une Adolescente, Electre, Une Italienne,

this one, that succeeds so amply, and which were in the same inimitable manner of this accom-

achieves the difficult feat of uniting no less than plished painter.

thirty artists who are all men of great talent. It is M. J. Blanche owes his high reputation to his
for this reason that we propose to single out the charming portraits, but he is an artist of such
recent exhibition of this society for very special varied and diverse talent, that not content to
notice, and to deal with it in preference to others specialise in one branch of his art, he has in
of a similar kind, for practically every work, and recent years been engaged in painting most inter-
certainly every artist who exhibited, deserves to be esting still-life pieces and interiors; but in such
carefully studied in detail. works as these he remains always the same remark-
M. Albert Besnard was represented this year by ably fine colourist so well known to us. I singled
five pictures, no one of which it must be admitted out for particular comment his Salon rose, a canvas
was of quite the same importance as certain works painted with surprising freedom of touch, and in

'panneau decoratif"

by andre dauchez
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