International studio (53.1914)

Studio- Tal k


“LES VEDETTES” BY GIOVANNI FATTORI
( Collection of Sgr. G. Sjorni—By courtesy of the Casa Editrice “ Self f Florence)

method of treatment. His later work was remark-
able for its variety of subject and medium. He
used oil and water-colour, pastel, pen and ink, and
pencil, as well as the etching needle, and among his
subjects we find portraits of fair women, toilers of
the field, animals, straw stacks, architecture, and
even simple masses of stone. Not all of his work
is perfect, but considering his large production, the
quantity of excellent work he accomplished is

astonishing, and in everything he produced his
individuality can be recognised. As remarked by
Oscar Ghiglia in his introduction to the fine volume
of reproductions which the publishing firm of Self has
recently consecrated to the memory of the artist,
“ it would be easier to copy one of Titian’s Venuses
than one of his [Fattori’s] fragments of stone,
so entirely is the result due to the unconscious action
of the brush or pencil as guided by the hand in


BY GIOVANNI FATTORI
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“UN JARDIN D’OLIVIERS”

(Collection of Julius Oppenheimer, Esq.)