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International studio — 59.1916

DOI Heft:
Nr. 235 (September, 1916)
DOI Artikel:
Studio-Talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43462#0288

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A fine display of sculpture was on view from
July io to 22 at the Grafton Galleries, the exhibits
consisting of the series of ten historical statues
destined for the marble vestibule of the Cardiff
City Hall, in which eight pedestals and two niches
have been standing vacant since the Hall was
opened in 1906, and are now to be occupied through
the munificence of Lord Rhondda. Included with
them was an extra group, representing the British
Queen Boadicea and her two daughters, by Prof.
Havard Thomas, who on the nomination of Lord
Rhondda has been acting as assessor in the carrying
out of the scheme in its artistic aspects. Mr.
Thomas’s collaborators were Sir W. Goscombe
John, R.A., to whom was entrusted the most im-
portant of the ten statues, that of St. David, patron
saint of Wales ; Mr. Pegram, A. R.A., Mr. Pomeroy,
A.R.A., Mr. E. G. Gillick, Mr. T. J. Clapperton,
Mr. L. S. Merrifield, Mr. W. W.
Wagstaff, Mr. Henry Poole, Mr.
Alfred Turner and Mr. T. N. Crook.
The formal unveiling of the statues
will, we understand, take place in
the course of a few weeks.

Among other exhibitions held in
London last month one of special
interest was that which filled the
three rooms at the Leicester Galler-
ies, where the public were enabled
to study at first hand the work of
Italy’s leading caricaturists in rela-
tion to the war. Satire is a weapon
which these artists know how to
wield with unerring aim, and if in
some cases their imagination takes
somewhat extreme forms, there can
be no question of their perfect
sincerity. Besides these caricatures,
the exhibition comprised a series of
drawings by Sgr. Pogliaghi depicting
military operations among the
rugged Alpine peaks, and as showing
the tremendous difficulties which
confront the brave Alpini and
Bersaglieri in this mountain warfare
nothing could be more eloquent.
Simultaneously with this exhibition
the Fine Art Society had on view
a collection of pictures by a Serbian
caricaturist, Frano Angeli Radovani,
who, in spite of occasional excesses,
displays considerable power of
pictorial invective.
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PARIS.—Draughtsman and graver, Bernard
Naudin is one of the most important
of the younger school of contemporary
French artists. On the eve of the war
he had already come to be regarded as the next in
succession to great leaders like Forain and Auguste
Lepere. On the outbreak of war, being not more
than forty years of age, he was called to the colours
and sent to the Front with the men of his class.
His artistic career may be divided into three periods.
For some score years he was content to remain
an observer of every-day life and popular types.
Coming himself from a family of workers—he is
the son of a watchmaker of Chateauroux—he has
known what it is to live in modest circumstances;
he has mixed with and loved the poor, and he
has been powerfully attracted by the picturesque



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ETCHING BY BERNARD NAUDIN
 
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