International studio (43.1911)

Studio-Talk

paintings, and further, a
large landscape represent-
ing some huge mountains
of savage grandeur, and
groves of delicately-tinted
trees, where among the
pagodas some philoso-
phers in light robes wander
discussing their theories.
Of the period which ap-
proaches more nearly to
our own day there were
some most interesting
portraits, notably one of
a woman by Kai-Chi
(about 1700). At the top
this picture bears the
exceedingly poetic in-
scription, “ She is seated
at a window, and watches
a flower fall from the
apricot tree.” I was also
much taken with a Lady
and her Servant, and a
picture of two women
seated beneath the great
leaves of a banana tree.


All the works in this beau-
tiful exhibition seemed to

“the artist’s children”

BY MAX KRUSE


be painted with incompa¬
rable strength and vigour, and one can but hope
that its effect may have been to incite Pari-
sians to study and to collect Chinese paintings.
At the Cercle Volney there has been the
usual annual exhibition of work by members,

but for the most part the pictures were of
little interest, though certain paintings deserve
to be remembered : two excellent seascapes
by Chigot, a work, in the vein of Velasquez,
done by M. Raymond Woog, and a portrait
full of personality by M. Jules Cayron. As
for the rest, exhibitions
seem to multiply without
there being much to no-
tice in the way of inte-
resting effort or novelty.
There are, however, two
exhibitions which I must
speak of, both unpreten-
tious, yet both very in-
teresting. The first was
a collection of paintings
of towns, shown in a new
gallery, A l’Amateur,
where I noticed some re-
markable contributions
by M. Francois Simon,
who is not only an en-
graver of great talent,
but also a painter with a

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