DOI Heft:
Nr. 335 (April 1925)
DOI Artikel:Flint, Ralph: Zuloaga and his hour
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0009
mceRnACionAL
NUDE WITH RED COMB BY IGNACIO ZULOAGA
The 1925 Zuloaga exhibition consisted of three flashing reds and greens and yellows of their silks
parts, dealing with cosmopolitan society, local and satins, that he robed even his American sitters
Spanish types and celebrities and landscape. The in the mode espapiol. Thus Mrs. Hoyt's dark
portraits were almost without exception built on beauty is set off with a lovely Spanish gown of
the theatrical, declamatory style that he has made bright green satin, very bouffant with wide
so exclusively his own. His manner of setting the flounces edged with purple, and Mrs. Hearst's
figure full-length against cool, lowering landscape costume is of flaming red-orange cut very full and
backgrounds, letting the warm flesh and flashing draped with the same transparent black lace that
accessories make their sure mark as on a lighted falls so charmingly irom her high shell comb. Miss
stage, keeping his accents clear and few, and Kahn has apparently suggested a more sombre
bringing off each big canvas with apparent ease, note to the artist, for he has painted her in a
as if his fat and pasty technique had no element severe black shawl which she wears Spanish-wise
of fussiness or labor to stilt his brushmanship, tight about her shoulders, and her full, flowered
obtained in his portraits of the Duke and Duchess skirt. Mrs. Garrett's raiment is less pronounced
of Alba, the Marchesa Casati, the Baroness de in style for she wears a fur-trimmed jacket and a
Fouquier, Mrs. John W. Garrett, Mrs. Julia large black picture hat in the manner of the
Hoyt, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Miss Mar- Place Vendome. While Mr. Fahnestock's por-
garet Kahn, Michael Strange (Mrs. John Barry- trait is in the same mcod and tonality, yet
more) and William Fahnestock, and in the three Zuloaga has made a distinct concession by slipping
likenesses of Juan Belmonte, the most celebrated into one hand at the very bottom of the canvas an
figure of the present-day bull-ring. American newspaper.
So deep is this painter's fondness for the cas- In the portraits of the Duke and Duchess of
cading laces and full-flowing skirts of his senoritas, Alba, the same distinguished qualities of color
their ornaments of shell and bright flowers, the and composition are brought to a high pitch. The
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NUDE WITH RED COMB BY IGNACIO ZULOAGA
The 1925 Zuloaga exhibition consisted of three flashing reds and greens and yellows of their silks
parts, dealing with cosmopolitan society, local and satins, that he robed even his American sitters
Spanish types and celebrities and landscape. The in the mode espapiol. Thus Mrs. Hoyt's dark
portraits were almost without exception built on beauty is set off with a lovely Spanish gown of
the theatrical, declamatory style that he has made bright green satin, very bouffant with wide
so exclusively his own. His manner of setting the flounces edged with purple, and Mrs. Hearst's
figure full-length against cool, lowering landscape costume is of flaming red-orange cut very full and
backgrounds, letting the warm flesh and flashing draped with the same transparent black lace that
accessories make their sure mark as on a lighted falls so charmingly irom her high shell comb. Miss
stage, keeping his accents clear and few, and Kahn has apparently suggested a more sombre
bringing off each big canvas with apparent ease, note to the artist, for he has painted her in a
as if his fat and pasty technique had no element severe black shawl which she wears Spanish-wise
of fussiness or labor to stilt his brushmanship, tight about her shoulders, and her full, flowered
obtained in his portraits of the Duke and Duchess skirt. Mrs. Garrett's raiment is less pronounced
of Alba, the Marchesa Casati, the Baroness de in style for she wears a fur-trimmed jacket and a
Fouquier, Mrs. John W. Garrett, Mrs. Julia large black picture hat in the manner of the
Hoyt, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Miss Mar- Place Vendome. While Mr. Fahnestock's por-
garet Kahn, Michael Strange (Mrs. John Barry- trait is in the same mcod and tonality, yet
more) and William Fahnestock, and in the three Zuloaga has made a distinct concession by slipping
likenesses of Juan Belmonte, the most celebrated into one hand at the very bottom of the canvas an
figure of the present-day bull-ring. American newspaper.
So deep is this painter's fondness for the cas- In the portraits of the Duke and Duchess of
cading laces and full-flowing skirts of his senoritas, Alba, the same distinguished qualities of color
their ornaments of shell and bright flowers, the and composition are brought to a high pitch. The
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