Studio: international art (22.1901)

Studio- Talk

Hermia, by Sir E. J. Poynter, P.R.A.
(water colour); Ecce Agnus Dei, by A.
Chevallier Tayler; Top of the Tide, by
Walter Bayes; and Morning, Conway
Harbour, by W. Stephenson, A.R.C.A.
(water colour). This last was purchased
under the terms of the Lord Derby
bequest.

H. B. B.

P

kARIS.—A collection of twenty
five canvases by Claude
Monet—thirteen of them un-
exhibited hitherto, and done
during the past two years—has attracted
crowds to the Durand-Ruel galleries.
This is always the case now when we
have an exhibition by the great land-
scapist, of whom a short time since the
critics and the public could say nothing
bad enough. To-day even the most
sincere and respectful criticism is pos-
sible only to the man who would risk
his life in the attempt; for Monet is
now the special property of the " snobs "
and the collectors, who regard even the
finest pictures merely as a means of
speculation. Nevertheless, I will be so
bold as not to admire so much as
perhaps it deserves the new set of ten
pictures, representing the same motif
under different atmospheric effects and
at different hours, entitled Le Bassin
aux Nympheas. I will even be so
panel in mosaic and iiY clement iieaton audacious as to express the opinion

enamelled repousse copper that these landscapes are wanting in air;

LIVERPOOL.—The Autumn Exhibition at
the Walker Art Gallery closed after a
successful sixteen weeks, with a register
of over sixty-six thousand visitors, and
without slackening interest appearing towards the
end, for the rooms were thronged up to the last
days. One hundred and sixty pictures have been
sold, to the value of ^7,733, out of which the
purchases made by the Corporation for the
permanent collection amount to about ^3,000,
and several important works have been secured
for the Gallery, including—Fast falls the Eventide,
by B. W. Leader, R.A.; Trevose Head, by
John Brett, A.R.A.; There is a Silence i7i the
solemn Woods, by J. Macwhirter, R.A.; The

Goose Girl, by Val C. Prinsep, R.A.; Helena and tea table by henri sauvage

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