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Quigley, J.: Leandro Ramon Garrido: a note on the man and his work
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Leandro Ramon Garrido
work is notable, especially that painted in a high key,
and treated in joyous fashion. He loved effects of
sunshine gleaming through foliage, and touching with
vivid spots of light the nude figures of bathers. Here
was a call for dexterous handling that attracted him.
Usually considered a realist, Garrido’s landscapes,
and most of the small studies for landscape, show
deep poetic feeling. A small painting, called Still
Waters (in the possession of Mrs. Garrido), of the
river Canche at Etaples is an idyll. The moon rises
in a quiet sky, reflected in water and sands, the pale
tones of which are rendered with infinite subtlety.
From the study of this artist’s work alone the student
may learn much of his equipment. The drawings
recently acquired by South Kensington are each in
their way examples of fine line and characterisation,
of poetic feeling in landscape, and of flesh-modelling.
In one of these black-and-white studies he has
given with rare economy the perfection of model-
ling. As a proof of his skill in subtle portraiture
a profile portrait of Miss Marian Powers (a friend
and pupil) is the subtlest piece of paint imaginable.
Light, colour, and texture are alike admirable.
Garrido was a conscientious and inspiring master.
PEN-AND-INK SKETCH FOR “LA DAME AUX GANTS”
BY L. R. GARRIDO
Garrido’s art recently traced an affinity to Raeburn,
especially in the characterisation and treatment of
The Fish-wife—reproduced on page 116.
Garrido might pardonably have wholly adopted
the Velasquez manner and yet remained sincere,
•although his choice of subject lay in other directions.
By race and temperament he was attracted to the
genius who has dominated so many painters, but
he had lived in other lands and unconsciously
•absorbed other influences, and the wonderful brush-
work of Hals and his frank and virile way of pre-
senting life held him spell-bound. Loving France
as he did, it is strange that he did not avow
■allegiance to the French schools. He studied at
the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and most of his work
was done in Paris. About the year 1906 he was
■elected Societaire of the Societe Nationale des
Beaux-Arts, and after his death the society gave
a prominent position at the Salon to a memorial
exhibition of his work. Although the French Press
almost invariably classified Garrido as a- Spanish
painter, France seems to have claimed him by
adoption, and to have inspired his principal
landscapes.
Primarily & genre and figure painter, his landscape
“ THE ART CRITIC” (CHARCOAL STUDY). BY L. R. GARRIDO
( Victoria and Albert Museum )
121
work is notable, especially that painted in a high key,
and treated in joyous fashion. He loved effects of
sunshine gleaming through foliage, and touching with
vivid spots of light the nude figures of bathers. Here
was a call for dexterous handling that attracted him.
Usually considered a realist, Garrido’s landscapes,
and most of the small studies for landscape, show
deep poetic feeling. A small painting, called Still
Waters (in the possession of Mrs. Garrido), of the
river Canche at Etaples is an idyll. The moon rises
in a quiet sky, reflected in water and sands, the pale
tones of which are rendered with infinite subtlety.
From the study of this artist’s work alone the student
may learn much of his equipment. The drawings
recently acquired by South Kensington are each in
their way examples of fine line and characterisation,
of poetic feeling in landscape, and of flesh-modelling.
In one of these black-and-white studies he has
given with rare economy the perfection of model-
ling. As a proof of his skill in subtle portraiture
a profile portrait of Miss Marian Powers (a friend
and pupil) is the subtlest piece of paint imaginable.
Light, colour, and texture are alike admirable.
Garrido was a conscientious and inspiring master.
PEN-AND-INK SKETCH FOR “LA DAME AUX GANTS”
BY L. R. GARRIDO
Garrido’s art recently traced an affinity to Raeburn,
especially in the characterisation and treatment of
The Fish-wife—reproduced on page 116.
Garrido might pardonably have wholly adopted
the Velasquez manner and yet remained sincere,
•although his choice of subject lay in other directions.
By race and temperament he was attracted to the
genius who has dominated so many painters, but
he had lived in other lands and unconsciously
•absorbed other influences, and the wonderful brush-
work of Hals and his frank and virile way of pre-
senting life held him spell-bound. Loving France
as he did, it is strange that he did not avow
■allegiance to the French schools. He studied at
the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and most of his work
was done in Paris. About the year 1906 he was
■elected Societaire of the Societe Nationale des
Beaux-Arts, and after his death the society gave
a prominent position at the Salon to a memorial
exhibition of his work. Although the French Press
almost invariably classified Garrido as a- Spanish
painter, France seems to have claimed him by
adoption, and to have inspired his principal
landscapes.
Primarily & genre and figure painter, his landscape
“ THE ART CRITIC” (CHARCOAL STUDY). BY L. R. GARRIDO
( Victoria and Albert Museum )
121