Studio: international art (16.1899)

Studio-Talk

THE TILTED CART' FROM AN ETCHING BY GEORGE GASCOYNE

can be no doubt he will succeed in producing true of flowers, objects of wonder to a cab-driver, an
works of art. artilleryman, and a street urchin, whose backs only

are seen.

Mr. George Gascoyne is an etcher rather than a
painter. In his two etchings reproduced here— It only remains now to mention the works sent
Showery Weather and The Tilted Cart—he shows by M. Ferdinand Luigini, evidently a genuine
full knowledge of technique and a deep sense of painter plenteously gifted, of whom much may be
Nature, especially in the first of the two plates. expected in the future. His Interieurs hollandais

and his Venetian and Algerian scenes are fine bits

of rich and striking colour. Particularly admirable
is his Femme hollandaise et son enfant, which is

Had I the space to spare, I should like to say a reproduced here—a delicate picture of tender

great deal about M. Charles Huard, whom I hold maternity in an exotic setting of much effectiveness.

to be a draughtsman of truest skill. His pastels

and his drawings, his studies of sailors and old -

Guernsey women, are irreproachable in touch and

treatment, and full of character. They deserve At Durand-RueFs a group of Neo-Impressionists

unqualified praise. Moreover, M. Huard has wit have on view an important display of their works,

and fancy ; what we call esprit, in fact. Note, for At the head of the band are MM. Paul Signac,

example, the poster for this very exhibition, in Luce, and Theo van Rysselberghe, whose names I

which the members of the " Demi-Douzaine " are mention especially because I know them to belong

drolly represented in the form of half-a-dozen pots to this artistic category; while with regard to other