Studio: international art (7.1896)

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her earlier pictures we may
trace the influence of the
painter of Olympia and
Torero Mort; but she was
an indefatigable worker,
ever in quest of something
new, and the result was
that she developed a dis-
tinct personality of her
own. For whether it be
due to her feminine nature
or to some special concep-
tion of art, the fact remains
that, although her work
may be akin to that of
Renoir, Pissarro, Degas,
Ce'zanne, and Zando-mene-
glhi—to the entire group
of early impressionists—
it yet bears the stamp of
an undoubted originality.
One walks among Berthe
Morisot's pictures as in a
garden full of homely
flowers, and clear light and
primitive foliage, with
nothing artificial, nothing
studied. Here are none
of the tricks, none of the
mannerisms so often found
in women's art, but rather
a complete discretion, a
rare gift of simplicity, and
a radiant freshness recall-

MANTELPIECE BY M. VAN DE VELDE . ...

ine our eighteenth century

WITH DECORATIVE PANELS BY ALBERT BESNARD ° , . , .

art; while in her sanguines
and in her charcoal studies

He proves himself a psychologist when depicting and drawings one finds, happily blended with the
the habits and manners of the Polish Jews, while admirable traditions of French art, the charming
particular success has attended his efforts to pro- influence of the best Japanese masters.

duce scenes of the life of the Galician peasant. _

But all these are surpassed by the portrait of him- At GeQrges petit>s the thirteenth exhibition of
self, which, painted in Whistler's light and fluent the „ International Society of Painting and Sculp-
style, quite startles one by its animation. ture » has just been opened It must unhesitatingly

^- "' be admitted that the foreigners have carried off all
the honours. Our attention is wholly claimed by

PARIS.—The friends of Mme Berthe M. Fritz Thaulow with his Clair de Lime and his
Morisot, who died last year, have Eglise Saint-Jacques a Dieppe; by M. Alexander
arranged as complete an exhibition Harrisson with his sea-pieces, and by M. Baertsoen,
of her work as possible at Durand whose gifts as a landscapist are clearly shown
Ruel's. Berthe Morisot, as is well here in his Beguinage un Matin de Neige. I was
known, was the sister-in-law of Edouard Manet, particularly struck with this last-named picture,
having married Eugene Manet, brother of the which expresses so well the dead silence of Winter,
celebrated chief of the impressionist school. In and the tranquil life of the recluses behind the

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