Studio- Talk
" lk DERNIER BAISER " (LKGENDE D'ORPHEE) BY PAUL DUBOIS
the event, which will also be commemorated by and since then he has devoted himself almost
the issue of a medal in silver and bronze. wholly to depicting the beauty of Stockholm, dear
to him since the days of his childhood. Readers
STOCKHOLM—The artistic season of 1910 of The Studio have seen some examples of his
began with a very extensive and interest- Stockholm pictures in the last Special Summer
ing exhibition of Count Louis Sparre's Number ("Sketching Grounds"), in which Count
works ranging over the last twenty years. Sparre with pen and pencil gives due praise to Stock-
This painter, though belonging to one of Sweden's holm as a sketching ground. We reproduce on p. 328
oldest families, has lived so long in foreign countries, his Spring Evening in Stockholm. His portraits
especially France and Finland, that he is nearly range from old to young ladies, from elderly states-
unknown to the art-loving Swedish public. Count men to young boys and girls, one of the most char-
Sparre is the same type of artist as the Finnish acteristic being the portrait of young Miss Cornelia
painter, Edelfelt, an experienced and cultivated Kuylenstierna, reproduced on page 328. The laugh-
technician with a sure eye for the possibilities of a ing, mischievous-looking girl in a white dress stands
motif. His versatile talent shows as well in his effectively against the green wainscoting and the
water-colours as in his oil-paintings or etchings big blue-and-white china pot. As Count Sparre's
and he devotes himself as much to landscape excellent graphic work has been both spoken of and
painting as to portraiture or genre painting. Sparre shown in The Studio and its Special Number on
settled in Stockholm a year and a half ago, Modern Etchers, we leave it out in this short resume.
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" lk DERNIER BAISER " (LKGENDE D'ORPHEE) BY PAUL DUBOIS
the event, which will also be commemorated by and since then he has devoted himself almost
the issue of a medal in silver and bronze. wholly to depicting the beauty of Stockholm, dear
to him since the days of his childhood. Readers
STOCKHOLM—The artistic season of 1910 of The Studio have seen some examples of his
began with a very extensive and interest- Stockholm pictures in the last Special Summer
ing exhibition of Count Louis Sparre's Number ("Sketching Grounds"), in which Count
works ranging over the last twenty years. Sparre with pen and pencil gives due praise to Stock-
This painter, though belonging to one of Sweden's holm as a sketching ground. We reproduce on p. 328
oldest families, has lived so long in foreign countries, his Spring Evening in Stockholm. His portraits
especially France and Finland, that he is nearly range from old to young ladies, from elderly states-
unknown to the art-loving Swedish public. Count men to young boys and girls, one of the most char-
Sparre is the same type of artist as the Finnish acteristic being the portrait of young Miss Cornelia
painter, Edelfelt, an experienced and cultivated Kuylenstierna, reproduced on page 328. The laugh-
technician with a sure eye for the possibilities of a ing, mischievous-looking girl in a white dress stands
motif. His versatile talent shows as well in his effectively against the green wainscoting and the
water-colours as in his oil-paintings or etchings big blue-and-white china pot. As Count Sparre's
and he devotes himself as much to landscape excellent graphic work has been both spoken of and
painting as to portraiture or genre painting. Sparre shown in The Studio and its Special Number on
settled in Stockholm a year and a half ago, Modern Etchers, we leave it out in this short resume.
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