Studio: international art (11.1897)

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to expect from such men
as Benjamin - Constant,
Bonnat,BouguereauJean-
4| J Paul Laurens, Gerome,

Detaille, Clairin, and Tony
Robert - Fleury, and we
don't expect them to give
us anything new. Their
art is always the same, as
far removed from life as
it is from dreamland, as
far from truth as from the
ideal—an art steeped in
antiquated conventionali-
ties, with no trace of life
about it.

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The big works—I am
speaking only of their size
—by the younger and less
" official " painters, are
not much more satisfac-
tory. MM. La valley, Paul
Gervais, Henri Martin,
Sinibaldi, Simonidy, and
the others, although their
work is freer in style,
show the same inability
to produce really powerful
and live effects of art.
M. R. Collin's Biblis is,
however, unquestionably
the most remarkable piece
of nude work in the Salon,
and proclaims itself the
production of an artist of
undoubted power.

POSTER BY J. V. CISSARZ . , ■

1 he landscape work is
more interesting than the

seems the very last consideration of the majority of rest. In their various ways MM. Paul Sain,
the regular exhibitors, one may discover on the Robert W. Allan, Quost, Zuber, Max Bouvet, Albert
other hand, by careful search, some few really Gosselin, J. F. Bouchor, Marche, and Carl Rosa show
interesting works, worthy of attention and admira- us a series of honest impressions of nature. M. J.
tion. They are scarce enough, certainly, and there Grimelund in his Antwerp scene conjures up with
is nothing remarkable about that. It is only infinite truth one of the loveliest landscapes in the
natural that in four or five thousand canvases world, and M. Gagliardini's scenes from Provence
there should be not more than a hundred of are luminous as ever. But we must hurry on to
average merit, about half as many of high value, the portraits. They are here in abundance, yet
and say ten at most worthy to endure. It would very few display the serious gifts demanded by this
be extraordinary were it otherwise. profound branch of art. Neither M. Saint-Pierre,

nor M. F. Humbert, any more than M. Roybet, or

At the Champs-Elysees there is not much to be M. Jules Lefevre, or M. Axilette, or M. Benner will
found. We know well enough beforehand what immortalise the features of his sitters.

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