Studio: international art (25.1902)

The Cult of the Statuette

"AN INVOCATION" HY GILBERT BAYES

and Comedy and Tragedy, two figures in which
perfect proportion and grace of movement stood in
strong contrast to the exaggerated vitality and con-
torted limbs of the much-vaunted Amazon in the
Defense, by Auguste Rodin. On the other side
of the gallery Thomas Brock's classic Eve and
his admirable bust of Leighton were flanked
by the inediasvally-schemed wax representations
of Lyonors and The Lady of the Isle of Avetyon,
by the newly-elected R.A., George Frampton.
To what excellence the late Lord Leighton
might have attained had he been a sculptor
pure and simple is evidenced by the tiny
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model of The Sluggard, utilised by Mr. Brock as
an instance of the President's art in his St. Paul's
Memorial. Charming in their simplicity and
daintiness are the two heads of Grisclda and
Innocence by Alfred Drury, A.R.A., the refine-
ment which characterises all this artist's work being
again noted in his latest production of Spring.

The entrance of the West Gallery was flanked
by two statuettes of F. W. Pomeroy's, Burns and
Cromwell; each likely to attain popularity with the
many admirers of those two widely dissimilar
characters. Either is admirably fitted for Institu-
tions which desire representations at a comparatively
small cost of the Poet or the Protector.

The collection testified very markedly to the
loss which British sculpture suffered from the early
death of Harry Bates and that of Onslow Ford in

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