DOI Heft:
Nr. 161 (July, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: Some notable pictures at the New Salon in Paris
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0054
Pictures at the New Salon
a sculptor, to whom he has given the features of
his friend Bartholome'; in the foreground he
depicts the lovely form of a woman, the artist's
model, with charming decorative motifs to the
right and left; and, lastly, all the cortege of La
Touche's familiars, the swans and fauns that
he delights to introduce into his compositions.
The other panel, Le Peintre, forms a perfect
companion picture to the one I have just
described, on account of its general tonality, its
fair and aerial colouring. The painter is there—
and this time it is La Touche himself represented
seated before his easel—but in the background.
The foreground is taken up with a wonderful
fountain, whose waters are thrown up towards the
sky, and reflect in a sparkling mirage all the
colours from the blue of the heavens and the white-
ness of the marble basin to the flaming hues of
the autumn leaves. The third panel represents Ie
Poke. A boat in which the poet is seated with his
friends glides through the calm water under the
arch of a bridge. The artist has painted the purple
foliage of a young vine running along the old
stones of the wall, and these leaves give the general
tonality of the whole work. Lastly, the fourth
panel, though less important in point of size, is
not less delicious in colouring. It has for subject
one of those interiors which La Touche paints so
faithfully, and in which the summer sunlight filters
through the half-closed Venetian blinds. And
here we find a musician, seized by the inspiration
of the moment, seated at the piano in the corner
of an elegant salon. Such, in a few words, is the
description of La Touche's most happy and charm-
ingly conceived work.
Now, as I have done in preceding years, I will
again endeavour to pick out from among the 1,236
pictures exhibited the best works and the artists
of undoubted talent. Some of the usual exhibitors
of first rank have failed to show this year, but here
it is important to remember that in this Spring of
1910, artists have been approached on all sides by
various exhibitions. The French School has
made a great effort to be worthily represented at
" CEREMONIE DANS LA CATHEDRALS DE BURGOS"
3°
BY CHARLES COTTET
a sculptor, to whom he has given the features of
his friend Bartholome'; in the foreground he
depicts the lovely form of a woman, the artist's
model, with charming decorative motifs to the
right and left; and, lastly, all the cortege of La
Touche's familiars, the swans and fauns that
he delights to introduce into his compositions.
The other panel, Le Peintre, forms a perfect
companion picture to the one I have just
described, on account of its general tonality, its
fair and aerial colouring. The painter is there—
and this time it is La Touche himself represented
seated before his easel—but in the background.
The foreground is taken up with a wonderful
fountain, whose waters are thrown up towards the
sky, and reflect in a sparkling mirage all the
colours from the blue of the heavens and the white-
ness of the marble basin to the flaming hues of
the autumn leaves. The third panel represents Ie
Poke. A boat in which the poet is seated with his
friends glides through the calm water under the
arch of a bridge. The artist has painted the purple
foliage of a young vine running along the old
stones of the wall, and these leaves give the general
tonality of the whole work. Lastly, the fourth
panel, though less important in point of size, is
not less delicious in colouring. It has for subject
one of those interiors which La Touche paints so
faithfully, and in which the summer sunlight filters
through the half-closed Venetian blinds. And
here we find a musician, seized by the inspiration
of the moment, seated at the piano in the corner
of an elegant salon. Such, in a few words, is the
description of La Touche's most happy and charm-
ingly conceived work.
Now, as I have done in preceding years, I will
again endeavour to pick out from among the 1,236
pictures exhibited the best works and the artists
of undoubted talent. Some of the usual exhibitors
of first rank have failed to show this year, but here
it is important to remember that in this Spring of
1910, artists have been approached on all sides by
various exhibitions. The French School has
made a great effort to be worthily represented at
" CEREMONIE DANS LA CATHEDRALS DE BURGOS"
3°
BY CHARLES COTTET