DOI Heft:
Nr. 75 (June 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0065
Studio- Talk
many dangers threatened is that of imitation, which
would be simple enough; and the prospect is too
terrible to contemplate. It is all like a nightmare.
The pity is that M. Guimard should be so con-
vinced, so steadfast of purpose. He is determined
to continue in what he calls his “ new style,” and
who knows but he may succeed ?
Following a display of the Societe Artistique
des Amateurs at Georges Petit’s—a “ retrospective
exhibition of amateur art,” extremely poor, with
one or two exceptions—came a show by the Pas-
tellists, which was decidedly superior to those of
the past two or three years. M. Paul Helleu’s
Hortensicis and his Portrait de Mine. C. are de-
lightful bits of colour most tenderly treated; and
equal praise must be bestowed on M. Rene
Mdnard’s Premieres Etoiles, Nu au crepuscule, and
La Fin du Jour, works full of poetry and charm.
Other notable exhibitors are M. Dagnan-Bouveret,
with a striking Etude pour une Decoration, M. A.
Besnard, M. Rene Billotte, M. Maurice Eliot,
M. Pierre Legarde, M. Gervex, M. Guignard,
M. Montenard, M. Nozal, and others. Nor must
we omit to mention the ever-welcome studies by
M. Lhermitte, or M. Levy-Dhurmer’s expressive por-
traits, particularly that of M. Paul Ollendorff. His
nocturne, Le Mai d’Aimer, moreover, reveals this
refined artist at his best. M. Jean Veber is another
exhibitor, his two fairy-tale subjects, Conciliabule
and Le Chateau d’loldis, being delightful alike in
conception and in treatment. M. Leandre is cari-
catural as usual in his Romance, but his women’s
portraits show considerable grace and delicacy of
vision.
M. Gaston La Touche sends three works only :
Tendre Aveu, Sur une Locomotive, and Expressions
Enfantines—the last a series of children’s heads,
boldly treated in powerful colourings, which will
delight all who see them.
Although M. Aman-Jean figures at the head of
the catalogue, I have kept him till the end, for his
works deserve a word of special mention, and I
only wish I could dwell upon them at greater
many dangers threatened is that of imitation, which
would be simple enough; and the prospect is too
terrible to contemplate. It is all like a nightmare.
The pity is that M. Guimard should be so con-
vinced, so steadfast of purpose. He is determined
to continue in what he calls his “ new style,” and
who knows but he may succeed ?
Following a display of the Societe Artistique
des Amateurs at Georges Petit’s—a “ retrospective
exhibition of amateur art,” extremely poor, with
one or two exceptions—came a show by the Pas-
tellists, which was decidedly superior to those of
the past two or three years. M. Paul Helleu’s
Hortensicis and his Portrait de Mine. C. are de-
lightful bits of colour most tenderly treated; and
equal praise must be bestowed on M. Rene
Mdnard’s Premieres Etoiles, Nu au crepuscule, and
La Fin du Jour, works full of poetry and charm.
Other notable exhibitors are M. Dagnan-Bouveret,
with a striking Etude pour une Decoration, M. A.
Besnard, M. Rene Billotte, M. Maurice Eliot,
M. Pierre Legarde, M. Gervex, M. Guignard,
M. Montenard, M. Nozal, and others. Nor must
we omit to mention the ever-welcome studies by
M. Lhermitte, or M. Levy-Dhurmer’s expressive por-
traits, particularly that of M. Paul Ollendorff. His
nocturne, Le Mai d’Aimer, moreover, reveals this
refined artist at his best. M. Jean Veber is another
exhibitor, his two fairy-tale subjects, Conciliabule
and Le Chateau d’loldis, being delightful alike in
conception and in treatment. M. Leandre is cari-
catural as usual in his Romance, but his women’s
portraits show considerable grace and delicacy of
vision.
M. Gaston La Touche sends three works only :
Tendre Aveu, Sur une Locomotive, and Expressions
Enfantines—the last a series of children’s heads,
boldly treated in powerful colourings, which will
delight all who see them.
Although M. Aman-Jean figures at the head of
the catalogue, I have kept him till the end, for his
works deserve a word of special mention, and I
only wish I could dwell upon them at greater