Studio: international art (9.1897)

Studio-Talk

bord de la Somme is still the delicate and forceful
painter of running water and night effects, un-
approachable in truthfulness and refined artistry.
M. Lucien Simon and M. Charles Cottet in several
Breton scenes give proof of a vigorous ability which
should develop in the near future into work of the
first order. M. Henri Duhem is by temperament
inclined to dull-tinted landscapes and twilight
scenes, and of their kind La Maison du Mort and
La Maison Pater?ieUe are very strong productions.
M. G. Grimelund shows some characteristic Nor-
wegian scenes; M. Walter (lay several charming
"bits" of Venice; and M. Alexander Harrison
some sea-scapes full as ever of interesting qualities.
M. Emile Claus, a very close and delicate observer,
sends three charming works of great feeling ; M. Le
Sidaner contributes a quite remarkable Cr'epuscule,
and M. Henri Rondel some carefully studied
portrait work and an interior, Z<? Salon de la Reinc
au relit Trianon, which recalls somewhat too

closely, without equalling in merit, the manner of
M. Lobre.

A word of mention is also due to M. Brangwyn's
Un Ma re he Espagnol, and M. Alexander's Etudes,
although in the former there is observable a certain
lack of unity, a certain disproportion and confusion
of effects ; while the latter in his three canvases
has nothing more than his ordinary manner to
show us. I must not forget M. Albert Baertsoen's
two pictures, Soir a fAsite, and Grand Rue a
Nieuportje Matin (Flanders) ; this is conscientious,
sob2r art, very expressive and very delicate, showing
an undoubted artistic gift which promises well for
the future.

At the Yollard Gallery in the Rue Laffitte, Van
Gogh has succeeded Gauguin. This is simply a
matter of Scylla and Charybdis. In the November

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FROM A PAINTING BY CHARLES COTTET