Studio: international art (12.1898)

Studio- Talk

It contains [many "very
clever and earnest works,
honestly executed. The

^J)^ ^ most prominent exhibits

, * ShbT - £~J& Hif whom there is nothing

Xf i lWf , & fresh to be said. The

I I, / - * m large collection of the

applies to the second

a cloud " uy charles sprague pearce section — that of the

light in it, but otherwise marines and land-
scapes were rather scarce. Henry Harpignies
had, however, a fine restful Autumn Evening on
the Loire. _

A small country, which sent far better pic-
tures than one would have expected from this Ifjjl^B ~j|3 J '
out-of-the-way corner, is Croatia. It was, cer- I IlI^B WW
tainly, only a collection of about a score of *M^| J 8
paintings, by eight or nine painters, but they '^jkl^B
were cmite a characteristic and very well painted nS
set, gay, not to say gorgeous, colouring pre- b» \k
dominating. Wako Bukovac sent half-a-dozen gg^m
pictures, of which a large canvas, Long Live the X ■ m ,
King.' was too crowded and restless and want- Jfflmk Rllfe W;*t':';
ing in atmosphere; much better was his Study *ff| m^:V:
(reproduced here), in which the flesh is charm- H jj| Wm
ingly done, and, although it is soft and dainty ' '*'* ififlnf t f|||
in colouring, the plastic effect is all one can III fill ' Lm,':''-"
desire. He also had a good portrait, although (^MH^hM^MIh HIbNI sA
somewhat brown in tone. G. B. s;",^B^l m M

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DUSSELDORF. -The International 'i^L jBH

Exhibition of Lithography or- ^"^BNbsr" fll j JHj

ganised at the Industrial Art |t.

Museum is exciting the utmost WK99^^^^-- Jmj ik^W

interest, not only on account of Hnl ^^^^^KBBw
the abundance of the display, which is on a
scale never before seen in Germany, but also

from its intrinsic artistic merits. The "His- ^^^^^^^Bl^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^™

torical Section " alone comprises several rooms. "melancholy melodies" by wilhelm muller

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