DOI issue:
No. 110 (May, 1902)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0308
Sttidio- Talk
d'etoffes anciennes reunies et decrites
par Mme. Isabelle Errera," con-
stitutes a real " document."
The Cercle Artistique of Brussels,
wishing to render a last tribute to
the lamented sculptor, P. Devigne,
untimely removed from the sphere
he so greatly honoured, lately
arranged an exhibition of some forty
of his works and studies. This dis-
play impressed one strongly, yet
subtly, for the deceased artist had a
metier which was incomparably
certain. neck ornament by Philippe wolfers
diadem for the hair by philippe wolfers
Paul Devigne produced many important works,
notably the Breydel and Deconinck monument in
Bruges; the group on the facade of the Palais des
Beaux-Arts in Brussels ; and the funereal monu-
ment of the Metdepenningen family in Ghent.
At the same time it is certain that he expressed
himself best in his less-known, his more intime,
work. At the exhibition in question, one saw a
graceful figure, L'Immortalitt (the marble is in
the Musee de Bruxelles); the charming bust
Psyche (of which the replica in ivory was repro-
duced some years since in The Studio) ; several
studies—young Romans of proud and graceful
demeanour, old Flemish men with hard, coarse
faces—and finally (the most remarkable thing
in a most interesting exhibition), the bust of the
Brussels painter, Eugene Smits, which is simply
a masterpiece.
The annual exhibition of the Belgian Society of
pendant by philippe wolfers
293
d'etoffes anciennes reunies et decrites
par Mme. Isabelle Errera," con-
stitutes a real " document."
The Cercle Artistique of Brussels,
wishing to render a last tribute to
the lamented sculptor, P. Devigne,
untimely removed from the sphere
he so greatly honoured, lately
arranged an exhibition of some forty
of his works and studies. This dis-
play impressed one strongly, yet
subtly, for the deceased artist had a
metier which was incomparably
certain. neck ornament by Philippe wolfers
diadem for the hair by philippe wolfers
Paul Devigne produced many important works,
notably the Breydel and Deconinck monument in
Bruges; the group on the facade of the Palais des
Beaux-Arts in Brussels ; and the funereal monu-
ment of the Metdepenningen family in Ghent.
At the same time it is certain that he expressed
himself best in his less-known, his more intime,
work. At the exhibition in question, one saw a
graceful figure, L'Immortalitt (the marble is in
the Musee de Bruxelles); the charming bust
Psyche (of which the replica in ivory was repro-
duced some years since in The Studio) ; several
studies—young Romans of proud and graceful
demeanour, old Flemish men with hard, coarse
faces—and finally (the most remarkable thing
in a most interesting exhibition), the bust of the
Brussels painter, Eugene Smits, which is simply
a masterpiece.
The annual exhibition of the Belgian Society of
pendant by philippe wolfers
293