DOI Heft:
No. 104 (November, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Sickert, Oswald: The International Society
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0132
The International Society
„ BY FERNAND KHNOPFF
" une recluse
authorities to have sent out once again to this or new Society looked forward to the miraculous
that collector, and borrowed a Degas here and a appearance of a body of painters who should have
Manet there ; but this is not really their business. pictures to show that were different from, and better
The reason for the Society's existence does not than, anything he had seen. In a gallery that
lie in its power to borrow from the past.
It must in the end, and in the main,
depend for its success, as the Academy
and the New English Art Club depend,
upon the pictures of the year; and it is
to the credit of the Society that it has
this year more thoroughly acknowledged
its true position.
So far, then, from quarrelling with this
third exhibition because it is not equal to
the first and second, the reasonable man
should rather stifle his grateful recollec-
tions, and deplore the merits of the former
exhibitions because they helped to prepare
a disillusion for him. Welcoming a beauti-
ful picture wherever he sees it, and caring
not particularly about dates and such
things, he found the first International
exhibition admirable. It was the best
exhibition he had ever seen, better even
than the Grafton of '93. Moreover, he
understood that the Society had been
formed under the leadership of Mr.
Whistler, and he knew of Mr. Whistler
not only as the first among living painters,
but as a crusader, as a fighter who had
fought against the bad painting with
which- others were satisfied. Therefore
the visitor to the first exhibition of the "a girl ok the sixties" by miss bessie macnicol
119
„ BY FERNAND KHNOPFF
" une recluse
authorities to have sent out once again to this or new Society looked forward to the miraculous
that collector, and borrowed a Degas here and a appearance of a body of painters who should have
Manet there ; but this is not really their business. pictures to show that were different from, and better
The reason for the Society's existence does not than, anything he had seen. In a gallery that
lie in its power to borrow from the past.
It must in the end, and in the main,
depend for its success, as the Academy
and the New English Art Club depend,
upon the pictures of the year; and it is
to the credit of the Society that it has
this year more thoroughly acknowledged
its true position.
So far, then, from quarrelling with this
third exhibition because it is not equal to
the first and second, the reasonable man
should rather stifle his grateful recollec-
tions, and deplore the merits of the former
exhibitions because they helped to prepare
a disillusion for him. Welcoming a beauti-
ful picture wherever he sees it, and caring
not particularly about dates and such
things, he found the first International
exhibition admirable. It was the best
exhibition he had ever seen, better even
than the Grafton of '93. Moreover, he
understood that the Society had been
formed under the leadership of Mr.
Whistler, and he knew of Mr. Whistler
not only as the first among living painters,
but as a crusader, as a fighter who had
fought against the bad painting with
which- others were satisfied. Therefore
the visitor to the first exhibition of the "a girl ok the sixties" by miss bessie macnicol
119