DOI Heft:
No. 109 (April, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Mourey, Gabriel: The art of M. Lucien Simon
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0177
Lucien Simon
replete with force and expression. Most of germ of all those qualities, both of composition
Flaubert's landscapes, at once the most precise and of execution, which give so much value to
and the most suggestive ever painted in the words works like the Cirque Forain, the Retour de la
of the French tongue, are limited to a few lines ; Messe a Penmarch* the Luttes dans le Finisfere,
all, nevertheless, are so typical that they remain and, lastly, to that astonishing Procession, with
ineffaceably impressed in the memory. M. Lucien which M. Lucien Simon made his entry last year
Simon works in similar fashion. A few touches, put (last year only, after so many mediocrities had
in with the certainty and the discernment that only figured there for years!) into the Luxembourg
the really great artist possesses, suffice to invest Gallery.
his figures with the surroundings mo-t appropriate And, their other qualities apart, M. Lucien
to them ; they are at once in their milieu, and these Simon's pictures are quite remarkable on account
brush-strokes, these effects of " values," have the
conciseness and, at the same time, the magnificence • see " An in 1S98," page 18.
of the epithets which
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
to^ understand him, and I^J^Hhb |j ^^^^^^^^^^^S^^^^^^gMM^^^^^^^^^^jj^^^B^^^B
normal, quite symmetri-
cal. La Messe a Perguet <<FEMME AVEc deux enfants malades" from a water-colour
and Le Lutrin contain the by lucien simon
164
replete with force and expression. Most of germ of all those qualities, both of composition
Flaubert's landscapes, at once the most precise and of execution, which give so much value to
and the most suggestive ever painted in the words works like the Cirque Forain, the Retour de la
of the French tongue, are limited to a few lines ; Messe a Penmarch* the Luttes dans le Finisfere,
all, nevertheless, are so typical that they remain and, lastly, to that astonishing Procession, with
ineffaceably impressed in the memory. M. Lucien which M. Lucien Simon made his entry last year
Simon works in similar fashion. A few touches, put (last year only, after so many mediocrities had
in with the certainty and the discernment that only figured there for years!) into the Luxembourg
the really great artist possesses, suffice to invest Gallery.
his figures with the surroundings mo-t appropriate And, their other qualities apart, M. Lucien
to them ; they are at once in their milieu, and these Simon's pictures are quite remarkable on account
brush-strokes, these effects of " values," have the
conciseness and, at the same time, the magnificence • see " An in 1S98," page 18.
of the epithets which
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
to^ understand him, and I^J^Hhb |j ^^^^^^^^^^^S^^^^^^gMM^^^^^^^^^^jj^^^B^^^B
normal, quite symmetri-
cal. La Messe a Perguet <<FEMME AVEc deux enfants malades" from a water-colour
and Le Lutrin contain the by lucien simon
164