International studio (49.1913)

Studio- Talk


“SOLEIL DE PRI'NTEMPS ”

FROM AN OIL PAINTING BY ABRAHAM MANIEVITCH

PARIS. — Amongst the work of the
younger American Painters in Paris
who within the last few months have
made remarkable progress, the Windsor
Castle\yy George Oberteuffer, reproduced on p. 322,
is an excellent example. It is one of his many
canvases executed in England last year despite the
weather, which was unfavourable to open air
painters. There is an old Scotch saying that—“ It
is an ill wind that blows nobody good.” In the
case of Mr. Oberteuffer the wet days made him
rely more on his memory than he had in any of
his previous work, with the result that all his latest
attainments exhibit a greater dignity, quality of
colour and personality; some of his most recent,
including a large and really masterly achievement
in the canvas of Notre Dame and a smaller one,
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La Place de la Concorde, are exceptionally fine in
colour.

The recent exhibition of the collective works ot
Abraham Manievitch brought together under the
organisation of Monsieur Jacques Bramson in the
Durand-Ruel galleries was markedly notable for its
striking individuality. With the exception of two
canvases exhibited in the Societe Nationale’s Salon
last year, this was the artist’s first appearance in
Paris. On entering the exhibition the first impression
was one of scintillating colour, light, and detail,
the detail vanishing on closer inspection into an
intricate maze of line revealing the artist’s joy
in portraying interlacing branches, veiling villages
in early spring sunlight and snow. Here was the
work of an artist who sacrifices nothing in his art to