Studio: international art (17.1899)

Studio-Talk

WOVEN FABRIC BY FELIX AUBF.RT

both from its grand proportions and from the melan-
choly beauty of the ideas by which the artist has
been inspired. It is truly impressive, this double
procession of old men and young women and

POTTERY WITH METALLIC TINTS BY CLlMENT MASSIER

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children, all walking towards the funereal gateway
which gapes in the centre of this blank wall—all
lingering, reluctant, imploring pity of Fate. Already
one couple has reached the abode of gloom, and
man and woman cling to one another for support.
Beneath, in the lower part of the monument, the
Angel of Immortality raises the heavy stone under
which repose the husband and wife, with their new-
born child between them. Architecturally the
work is of extreme simplicity, devoid of ornamen-

PITCHER BY P. SECUIN

tation, and with nothing to distract one’s gaze from
the human figures, which are superb in their
sorrowful resignation. The monument will be
inaugurated on November 2, the Jour des Morts, at
Pere-Lachaise.

Auguste Rodin having requested the permission
of the Municipal Council of Paris to construct next
year, on the Place de l’Alma, a pavilion in which
he proposes to exhibit a large collection of his
works, there has arisen a lively controversy between
the admirers and the opponents of the great