Studio: international art (19.1900)

Studio-Talk

execution; for their realistic interpretation of nature Brussels) worthily celebrated its fortieth anniversary

in no way suggests the highly formulated style of the by a very appropriate exhibition at the Musee de

great French realist, but rather reminds one of Bruxelles, The works were limited in number on

the manner of certain caricaturists or "charac- this occasion, and the hanging was consequently

teristics" greatly in vogue in Paris at the moment, much more satisfactory than usual. There was

M. Evenepoel brought back from Algeria a great variety of style—works by Eugene Smits,

number of studies—now charming in point of Uyterschaut, Marcette, and Stacquet mingling

colour (as, for example, his little scene on the quay with those of the stylists or "intellectuels "—

of Algiers), now full of amusing observation,'such as Meunier, X. Mellery, Fernand Khnopff, and

his Arab market scenes and his negro dances. He Delaunois ; and variety is charming in a display of

also exhibited several remarkable portraits, and some this sort. Among the foreign exhibits must be

curiously coloured etchings. In short, Mr. Evenepoel noted the excellent examples of C. W. Bartlett,

was a colourist of much power, and an expressive G, La Touche, Skarbina, and Clara Montalba—the

draughtsman, and his unexpected death is an Vue de Vem'se by the last named being simply

undoubted loss to the Belgian school. M. Huklen- exquisite,
brok sent some studies of light effects from

Holland, and a little portrait well and firmly drawn. An exhibition of about 1,400 photographs,

Altogether the season at the Cercle may be said mostly "after" Italian frescoes of the fourteenth

to have opened satisfactorily with this exhibition. and fifteenth centuries, has been arranged at the

■- Musee du Cinquantenaire by the manager, M.

The Belgian Society of Water-Colourists (of van Overloop. An annotated catalogue gives the

visitor much interesting information con-
cerning the exhibits.

The Brussels sculptor, J. Lambeaux,
has now practically completed his gigantic
marble bas-relief, which he calls Les
Passions Humaines 011 le Ca/vaire de
P'Humanitc. The work in its entirety
cannot be criticised yet; but even now-
one cannot repress a feeling of admiration
for the artist's immense and divers labours
in this vast undertaking.

R. Janssens, the Brussels painter, has
opened an exhibition of his latest produc-
tions in the quaint studio built for him by
the architect Hankar. He shows us
portraits of relatives and friends, church
interiors, and particularly several interest-
ing "bits" of that old Brussels which is
disappearing little by little, as the trans-
formation of the city proceeds. Here
M. Janssens is at his best, for he excels
in suggesting the special characteristics
of those antique and placid buildings.

Collectors of posters will probably be
glad to learn that a "Belgian Society of
Affichophiles " has been started with the
object of facilitating the exchange of
artistic posters among amateurs. The
Director of the Society is M. L. Dcfize,
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" HEIMKEHRENDER EREMH " BY WILHELM BADER