Gaston La Touche
point out the material and other beauties of Le sponge—these great sheets of paper. He thus
Pardon breton, la nuit, and Bonaparte en Italic, in obtains new effects, which are the more striking
which the face of the First Consul is conjured in that they remain, despite their boldness, well
up with wonderful intensity, and on his delightful within the domain of the water-colour. From this
domestic piece, Jeune Mere. standpoint alone, La Guerre and La Revolte are
To return to the water-colours, I will mention, remarkable productions. I know no one who has
in addition to those already referred to, Les Out- obtained equal results by the medium of the
rages, La Tasse de The, the vigorous Portrait de genuine water-colour. Evidently, in the hands of
Pavis de Chavannes, and Le Chapitre, which an artist like La Touche this method becomes a
achieved great success at the last exhibition of the most forcible means of expression, and one from
" Societe Royale des Aquarellistes." What I have which all sorts of unexpected effects may be
said of Gaston La Touche's oils applies with equal derived.
force to his water-colours. He obtains extra- Was I not right, at the outset of this brief
ordinary intensity of colour. It is wonderful to examination of Gaston La Touche's work, to show
note the independence, the freedom of technique some indignation against triumphant mediocrity,
with which he treats—for the .most part with the when an artist of this calibre, a strong, honest,
" le jet d'eau
SS
from a i'ainting by gaston la touche
point out the material and other beauties of Le sponge—these great sheets of paper. He thus
Pardon breton, la nuit, and Bonaparte en Italic, in obtains new effects, which are the more striking
which the face of the First Consul is conjured in that they remain, despite their boldness, well
up with wonderful intensity, and on his delightful within the domain of the water-colour. From this
domestic piece, Jeune Mere. standpoint alone, La Guerre and La Revolte are
To return to the water-colours, I will mention, remarkable productions. I know no one who has
in addition to those already referred to, Les Out- obtained equal results by the medium of the
rages, La Tasse de The, the vigorous Portrait de genuine water-colour. Evidently, in the hands of
Pavis de Chavannes, and Le Chapitre, which an artist like La Touche this method becomes a
achieved great success at the last exhibition of the most forcible means of expression, and one from
" Societe Royale des Aquarellistes." What I have which all sorts of unexpected effects may be
said of Gaston La Touche's oils applies with equal derived.
force to his water-colours. He obtains extra- Was I not right, at the outset of this brief
ordinary intensity of colour. It is wonderful to examination of Gaston La Touche's work, to show
note the independence, the freedom of technique some indignation against triumphant mediocrity,
with which he treats—for the .most part with the when an artist of this calibre, a strong, honest,
" le jet d'eau
SS
from a i'ainting by gaston la touche