Studio: international art (27.1903)

Studio- Talk

ness, grace and power. The Washerwomen on the
Banks of the Marne, now reproduced, is one of his
latest pictures, and was seen in this year's Salon.
It is a truly delightful work, in which a very keen
sense of nature is united with a curiously original
and personal manner of interpretation.

Mi Lucien Gaillard is ever on the look-out for
that which is fresh and novel. As gold-worker and
jeweller he has been foremost among, the most
resolute supporters of the modern decorative art
movement. At first the jewels he produced were

BY M. ESCOUBA

BY M. BARFOORT

VIENNA.—Pen-drawing has of late been
much practised by the younger group
of painters and architects in Vienna,
whose tastefully - arranged exhibitions
have proved so
beneficial to Aus-
trian art in
general.

The peculiar

charm of the pen- \ K~2r*j$j&i?

design, with its j jj^JV- ^(Q|||r

vivid outline and

facility of indivi-

somewhat complicated and distorted, but now he dual expression,

has attained to greater wisdom and greater sim- renders it pre-

plicity, this evolution being the result of serious eminently suited

and patient study of the Japanese masters. He to the taste of the

has been at great pains also to recover the present time, es-

secret of the marvellous oxidations on the bronzes peciallyfor decora-

of the Far East, and he has succeeded therein, tive and illustra-
He has lately shown some hair-pins and small-
.combs thoroughly characteristic of his present
manner.

BOOK-PLATE BY HANS PRZIBRAM

We give illustrations of a clock by M. Barfoort
and a bust by M. Escouba, which have recently

been completed for M. Frederic Goldscheider. *f?

M. FROM A PEN-DRAWING BY HANS PRZIBRAM