Studio: international art (27.1903)

Studio- Talk

tenderly on the figure. Another colourist, Jules progress; his picture, The Fan, is heavy and

Cheret, exhibits two female studies, one in yellow unpleasant,
the other in pink, rendered with the grace, the

sparkling incisiveness which show Cheret to be The American Art Association, which includes

the successor of the French artists of the eighteenth many English as well as American artists, has

century. opened in its rooms, Rue Notre Dame des Champs,

a small exhibition in anticipation of a more impor-
Thaulow's manner again expresses itself readily tant show at a later date. I noted there some glow-
by the new method. In fact, next to M. Raffaelli, ing "impressions" of Venice, by Mr. Faulkner; some
he is, I think, the artist who has best succeeded portraits by Mr. Comyns and by Mr. George Aid,
with it; its chief use, no doubt, will be in land- who also exhibits some engravings ; landscapes and
scape painting. His Le Canal Saint-Martin (be- marine pictures by Mr. Lionel Walden and Mr.
longing to M. Montaignac) is one of his finest works. Gihon ; some etchings by Mr. McLaughlan, and a
Among other interesting examples we must mention very fine portrait by Mr. Garrido, a colourist, and
a Woman's Head, by M. Prouve, treated with the one of the keenest students of character who ex-
breadth in which this capital decorative painter hibit at the National Society of Fine Art. Mr.
excels; some good Mowers by M. Mangeant; the Bartlett sends an elegant and spirited head in
very truthful sketches by M. Steinlen; a Mo?-?iing sculpture.
Effect by M. Wahlberg, another clever Scandinavian

artist; and four pictures by M. Hollebeke, who In the Silberberg rooms, Rue Taitbout, a young

there shows himself a good colourist. M. Louis artist, M. Caro-Delvaille, for whom I have ere now

Legrand, on the contrary, does not make goods predicted a brilliant career, has a little exhibition of

'le canal st. martin" by fritz ti-iaulow

(By permission of M. Montaignac)