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Quigley, J.: Leandro Ramon Garrido: a note on the man and his work
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Leandro Ramon Garrido
“NEAR AVRANCHES ”
( The property of Mrs. W. Leadbitter)
FROM A DRAWING BY L. R. GARRIDO
He gave to his pupils’ work an ungrudging interest
that could never be repaid by fees. Some of his
pupils have become successful painters, and frankly
own their indebtedness to a master who was ready
at any moment with sympathetic criticism. In his
marriage—that most critical of all experiments to
the artist—he was singularly fortunate. Courage
and sincerity were matched with equal courage and
sincerity, and in this real companionship with his
work and ideas the artist found rest and content-
ment, until at the early age of forty he had at last
to yield to inexorable weakness.
Of the pictures here reproduced, A Cloudless
Horizon, carried out in low and quiet tones, is an
excellent piece of work, in which each part takes
its place unerringly. The child’s mischievous face
expresses complete satisfaction, and the still-life is
excellent. All in the Day’s Work is a tour-de-
force of still-life painting, the smiling girl being
of secondary importance in the scheme. The pen-
and-ink sketch for La Dame aux Gants is espe-
cially interesting as being the only pen-and-ink
drawing by Garrido known to be in existence.
The Art Critic, a study for the picture already
mentioned, is reproduced from a charcoal drawing,
and portrays a remarkable type which one need
scarcely say appealed strongly to the artist. More
delicate in handling is the Old Man with a Fife,
drawn in black and white chalk; and the draw-
ing of Near Avranches shows that poetic feeling
characteristic of many of Garrido’s landscapes.
Among his most important works is the brilliant
portrait study La Dame aux Gants purchased by
Glasgow in 1904; La Petite Plongeuse (reproduced
in The Studio, vol. xxvi. p. 197), purchased by
the Luxembourg, and now hung in the Chateau du
Rambouillet. In the Petit Palais (Champs-Elysees)
is a fine example, Au Spectacle, which was bought
by the City of Paris. The Philadelphia Art Gallery
acquired The Treasure and The Art Critic; and
Buenos Ayres Gallery Le Promenade aux Bois.
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, always fore-
most to recognise talent, acquired His First Offence.
These works testify, as no written word concern-
ing them can do, to the value of Leandro Garrido’s
art. But the written word has its use in making
a painter more widely known, and, perhaps, more
widely understood. J. Q.
An International Building Trades Exhibition
(Internationale Baufach-Ausstellung) on an exten-
sive scale is to be held at Leipzig next year from
May to November. The exhibition, which will
occupy an area of about 400,000 square metres, will
be divided into eight chief sections, of which the
principal one will comprise architecture in nume-
rous groups, towns and settlements, underground
and overground construction, interior decoration,
industrial art, homes and their decoration, archi-
tectural painting and sculpture, gardens and parks,
cemeteries, monuments, &c.; while another im-
portant section will include building materials of
every kind, heating and illumination plant. The
exhibition site is in close proximity to the garden
suburb of Marienbrunn.
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“NEAR AVRANCHES ”
( The property of Mrs. W. Leadbitter)
FROM A DRAWING BY L. R. GARRIDO
He gave to his pupils’ work an ungrudging interest
that could never be repaid by fees. Some of his
pupils have become successful painters, and frankly
own their indebtedness to a master who was ready
at any moment with sympathetic criticism. In his
marriage—that most critical of all experiments to
the artist—he was singularly fortunate. Courage
and sincerity were matched with equal courage and
sincerity, and in this real companionship with his
work and ideas the artist found rest and content-
ment, until at the early age of forty he had at last
to yield to inexorable weakness.
Of the pictures here reproduced, A Cloudless
Horizon, carried out in low and quiet tones, is an
excellent piece of work, in which each part takes
its place unerringly. The child’s mischievous face
expresses complete satisfaction, and the still-life is
excellent. All in the Day’s Work is a tour-de-
force of still-life painting, the smiling girl being
of secondary importance in the scheme. The pen-
and-ink sketch for La Dame aux Gants is espe-
cially interesting as being the only pen-and-ink
drawing by Garrido known to be in existence.
The Art Critic, a study for the picture already
mentioned, is reproduced from a charcoal drawing,
and portrays a remarkable type which one need
scarcely say appealed strongly to the artist. More
delicate in handling is the Old Man with a Fife,
drawn in black and white chalk; and the draw-
ing of Near Avranches shows that poetic feeling
characteristic of many of Garrido’s landscapes.
Among his most important works is the brilliant
portrait study La Dame aux Gants purchased by
Glasgow in 1904; La Petite Plongeuse (reproduced
in The Studio, vol. xxvi. p. 197), purchased by
the Luxembourg, and now hung in the Chateau du
Rambouillet. In the Petit Palais (Champs-Elysees)
is a fine example, Au Spectacle, which was bought
by the City of Paris. The Philadelphia Art Gallery
acquired The Treasure and The Art Critic; and
Buenos Ayres Gallery Le Promenade aux Bois.
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, always fore-
most to recognise talent, acquired His First Offence.
These works testify, as no written word concern-
ing them can do, to the value of Leandro Garrido’s
art. But the written word has its use in making
a painter more widely known, and, perhaps, more
widely understood. J. Q.
An International Building Trades Exhibition
(Internationale Baufach-Ausstellung) on an exten-
sive scale is to be held at Leipzig next year from
May to November. The exhibition, which will
occupy an area of about 400,000 square metres, will
be divided into eight chief sections, of which the
principal one will comprise architecture in nume-
rous groups, towns and settlements, underground
and overground construction, interior decoration,
industrial art, homes and their decoration, archi-
tectural painting and sculpture, gardens and parks,
cemeteries, monuments, &c.; while another im-
portant section will include building materials of
every kind, heating and illumination plant. The
exhibition site is in close proximity to the garden
suburb of Marienbrunn.
122