DOI Heft:
Nr. 220 (June, 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-Talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43458#0413
Studio-Talk
WALNUT WRITING-TABLE AND VITRINE
calls for special mention. Mr. Sleator exhibits
four portraits, in all of which one recognises
“quality” of a very unique kind. His rapidly
executed head of a man in a led coat and his
self-portrait are full of distinction and beauty of
tone. Mr. Keating’s Annushka, a seated portrait
of a lady in a black dress, is a vivid piece of
painting, and in another large canvas, Pipes and
Porter, he exhibits a clear vision and brilliant
incisiveness of touch which promise well for his
future work. Amongst the other Irish painters re-
presented are Mr. Jack Yeats, Miss Clare Marsh,
who shows a clever portrait of a lady, Mr. W.
Crampton Gore, Mrs. Clarke, Miss Maude Ball,
and Mr. R. C. Orpen, wrhose water colour interiors
are full of charm. The sculpture section, a small
one, includes three finely modelled statuettes by
Mr. Oliver Sheppard. E. D.
MILAN.—Eugenio Quarti, whom I count
it my good fortune to be permitted to
present to the readers of The Studio,
plays at the present moment a role
apart in the Italian decorative art movement. He
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY EUGENIO QUARTI
is at once a precursor and a master ; amateurs and
critics alike are to-day unanimous in recognising his
undeniable superiority in this field of wrork, and the
crowd of imitators who have followed in his wake
may in itself be regarded as a proof of his eminence.
Despite this, however, I do not think that even
in Italy, with all the commendation Quarti has
received, his art is as yet adequately appreciated
or understood. In the course of time, how'ever,
this constructor of furniture will assuredly be ranked
with the most remarkable in the group of those
who carry on the Lombard tradition—a tradition
lacking neither value nor honour.
Eugenio Quarti, who is to-day at the full tide or
his artistic power, is a native of the province of
Bergamo, and comes of a family in which the art of
working in wood is hereditary. He recognised from
the very earliest his vocation and soon found his
metier. So he devoted himself from his youth to
cabinet-making, not remaking or counterfeiting the
antique, but following out his own ideas boldly
and bravely, with all the fresh enthusiasm of a
young and gifted man and that spirit of hope which
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WALNUT WRITING-TABLE AND VITRINE
calls for special mention. Mr. Sleator exhibits
four portraits, in all of which one recognises
“quality” of a very unique kind. His rapidly
executed head of a man in a led coat and his
self-portrait are full of distinction and beauty of
tone. Mr. Keating’s Annushka, a seated portrait
of a lady in a black dress, is a vivid piece of
painting, and in another large canvas, Pipes and
Porter, he exhibits a clear vision and brilliant
incisiveness of touch which promise well for his
future work. Amongst the other Irish painters re-
presented are Mr. Jack Yeats, Miss Clare Marsh,
who shows a clever portrait of a lady, Mr. W.
Crampton Gore, Mrs. Clarke, Miss Maude Ball,
and Mr. R. C. Orpen, wrhose water colour interiors
are full of charm. The sculpture section, a small
one, includes three finely modelled statuettes by
Mr. Oliver Sheppard. E. D.
MILAN.—Eugenio Quarti, whom I count
it my good fortune to be permitted to
present to the readers of The Studio,
plays at the present moment a role
apart in the Italian decorative art movement. He
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY EUGENIO QUARTI
is at once a precursor and a master ; amateurs and
critics alike are to-day unanimous in recognising his
undeniable superiority in this field of wrork, and the
crowd of imitators who have followed in his wake
may in itself be regarded as a proof of his eminence.
Despite this, however, I do not think that even
in Italy, with all the commendation Quarti has
received, his art is as yet adequately appreciated
or understood. In the course of time, how'ever,
this constructor of furniture will assuredly be ranked
with the most remarkable in the group of those
who carry on the Lombard tradition—a tradition
lacking neither value nor honour.
Eugenio Quarti, who is to-day at the full tide or
his artistic power, is a native of the province of
Bergamo, and comes of a family in which the art of
working in wood is hereditary. He recognised from
the very earliest his vocation and soon found his
metier. So he devoted himself from his youth to
cabinet-making, not remaking or counterfeiting the
antique, but following out his own ideas boldly
and bravely, with all the fresh enthusiasm of a
young and gifted man and that spirit of hope which
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