Studio: international art (19.1900)

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and on the whole succeeds admirably in his
endeavour. If at times his work is overdone in
its regard for minute detail, it is at any rate
always thoroughly sound and honest. To me his
pictures seem more fascinating than profound, but
there is no denying the real charm they possess.
M. Le Gout-Gerard's exhibition was a genuine
success, as it deserved to be.

Above all I admired his Crepuscule parisien
wherein one sees, from the Place de la Concorde,
the whole Avenue des Champ-Elysees, with night
falling rapidly over all, and the Arc de Triomphe
gleaming away in the distance. Another fine thing
is his study of a women, called, I think, Le Corset
Jaune, a delicate harmony in whites, with a blue
night effect of irresistible charm.

On page 276 we give illustrations of some delight- A few ardent and hopeful young artists have just
ful little bookplates by M. Maurice de Lambert. started a club at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, styled
■- " L'Esthetique," the object of which is to develop

In the pretty little exhibition gallery of the Paul throughout provincial France, by means of
Ollendorff Librairie M. Andre Sinet recently dis- meetings and concerts and exhibitions, a taste for
played thirty-four of his canvases, including land- all that is Good and Beautiful and True. The
scapes of Paris and its environs, female studies and initiators of the movement are MM. Georges
portraits. M. Sinet delights in the attenuated aspect Godin, the aquafortist in colours, well known to
of things, in misty effects, seen in the pale light of the readers of The Studio, R. Lemeunier, the
evening. He paints delightfully, with an infinitely musical composer, E. Genet, and Ch. Felix Le
delicate touch, for he is full of poetic sentiment. Gendre, painters, and Leon Pivet, draughtsman.

- The honorary committee of which Rodin has

accepted the presidency consists of MM.
Bracquemond, Jeanniot, Helleu, Hugues
Le Roux, Octave Mirbeau and Gabriel
Mourey. G. M.

BERLIN.—The work of Karl
Langhammer, whose land-
scapes Kltinge and Aus der
Priegnitz formed part of the
January exhibition at Keller and Reiner's
Salon, belongs to that kind of artistic
production which slowly but steadily gains
real friends among lovers of true art.
The artist has been before the public
several years, but the quiet inwardness of
his work, which shrinks from anything
in the nature of startling effects, has failed
to make people talk about him. Still his
faithfulness to his own individuality and a
touch of aristocratic reserve have brought
it about that you can now hear him
spoken of in fashionable drawing-rooms.
That even ladies call him " a very good
artist " says just as much for him as for
the fact that the Press and its critics
have gradually succeeded in instilling the
public with something like appreciation
of art for art's sake. It is art for art's
sake, and Heimatkunst, the art of your
own native soil, that Karl Langhammer
, gives. He is foremost among the men

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