Studio: international art (22.1901)

Studio- Talk

by M. Fabry showed great
skill in design, while a
panel, brode au J>assS, by
Madame de Rudder, had
much merit in its brilliant
colouring.

The weekly exhibitions
of the "Cercle Artistique
de Bruxelles" continue to
attract numerous visitors.
Prominent among the
works displayed have been
the bright morceaux by
M. D. Oyens, the land-
scapes by M. Jeffreys, the

waist-belt buckle by ph. wolfers brilliant flower-pieces by

Mile. Rouner, the sea-
pieces and sky-studies by

thrust it offensively into every one's face. It goes M. Marcette, the animals and portraits by M. and
without saying that they borrowed only such motives Mme. Bernier, the clever and sparkling water-
as would readily yield themselves to decorative colours by MM. Stacquet and Uytterschaut, and
treatment, and the effect is very pleasing. the paintings—gay or grave—of MM. Charpentier

H. W. S. and Speekaert.--.

RUSSELS.—The club known as " Le Great was the success of the annual exhibition
Cercle pour l'Art" recently gave a most of the Brussels Society of Water-Colourists in the

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B interesting display in the
galleries of the Musee de
Bruxelles. Specially remarkable was the
exhibit of V. Rousseau, the sculptor,
which included a charming group of two
sisters, a life-like bust, a statuette of a
youth, and an expressive fragment, called
Le Drame Humain. M. Braecke con-
tributed a group of fisherwomen ; M. de
Rudder a series of earthenware masks
and a skilfully-designed commemorative
plaquette. M. Ph. Wolfers had several
show-cases, containing waist-belt buckles,
hair ornaments, combs, neck-pendants,
necklaces, etc., together with a vase
and an electric lamp, in the form of an
ivory statuette, enriched with gold and
enamels.

The painters, R. Janssens, A. Han-
notiau, and O. Coppens showed their
well-known studies of Flemish houses,
silent and well-ordered ; MM. F. Baes
and Vanden Eeckhoudt contributed
portraits; MM. Vierin, Viandier, and
Hamesse, landscapes; M. A. Lynen,
typic illustrations; and M. Ottevaere a
delicate water-colour. A tapestry design hair ornament by ph. wolfers

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