International studio (45.1912)

Studio- Ta Ik

represented, and glance at the art of Russia, a late-
opened palace but possessing features of great
interest. Seroff has here an “individual show”
which compares, though on a far smaller scale, with
the brilliant exhibitions in the great International
Palace of Art of the Spaniards, Ignacio Zuloaga
and Hermen Anglada. Seroff’s portraits here of
Tamagno, of the Princess Orloff (lent by herself),
and of Ida Rubenstein are very admirable in
treatment; and I noted a Hunting Scene in which
Catherine II. was taking part, and a Study of a
Woman! Head, most subtle and very fine in its
intonations. Next to Seroff comes of course Ilya
Repin with his two fine Portraits of Leo Tolstoi, in
one of which the writer appears beside his wife,
and Jeunesse, a curious scene from student-life in

Russia. Demonstration, a marvellous study of a
moving crowd, is, I understand, full of portraits
from the life. A landscape by Vasnetzoff is to
be noted, while three other paintings of special
interest are Constantin Makowski’s Russian Mar-
riage in the XVIIIth Century, a large subject
picture finely handled; A Difficult Crossing, by
Sytchkoff, showing peasant girls crossing a stream,
as close in characterisation as in technique; and
lastly Tekhoff’s painting of The Bathers—a group
of Russian peasant women in the water, which is
really marvellous in its rendering of the flesh
tints and reflections. The bronze mounted figure
of Alexander II. by Prince Trubetzkoi—a sketch
for the contemplated monument—is vigorous in
treatment and well handled.

FROM THE OIL PAINTING BY TH. HOLMBOE
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“ THE RIVER ”