Studio: international art (25.1902)

The Cult of the Statuette



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circe —bronze relief by f. derwent wood

middle life. The former stood in a class almost is restricted by the owners of the copyright. Fortu-
apart from everyone else in his admirably composed nately this is not the case with the panel of Psyche,
and still more admirably modelled reliefs, and it so well adapted for overmantel decoration. The
is a further loss to art if, as we understand, the bust of Mr. Bates's Rhodope, modelled from his
duplication of such examples as ^Fneas and Homer wife, was perhaps the most refined piece of work

in the collection. Onslow Ford was, as his Folly
and the unfinished and ominously conceived Fate
'• show,^ a born creator^of statuettes. ^ The same may

/• any

pd \ ■ his French confreres in aiming at an excellency of

. -^>-^r ■ surface colour in addition to that of modelling.

■ ^.gj i The patina of his exhibits were only equalled in

^^^^^^^^.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the exhibition by ihat upon the L'Enfant^ au^

Masseau's Loulotte, Levasseur's / ro Patria, and
"childhood" by w. goscombe john, a.r.a. E. Dagonet's Paradis Perdu.

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