Studio: international art (28.1903)

Studio- Talk

landscape in water-colour by de feure

La Poignee, which is in
its kind really one of the
most important attempts
of these later years. The
eight artistic craftsmen
who form the group show
us works of clear purpose
well thought out, which
we cannot pass over with
indifference. M. Belville
sends furniture and tex-
tiles, elegant in form and
distinguished in the treat-
ment of colour, with a
variety of ingenious orna-
mentation.

All these artists must be

sweet and refined fancy that marks all this painter's complimented on their use of materials, each in its
work is obvious even in the reproduction, but the own spirit, a remark peculiarly applicable to M. Jules
tender colour is, of course, lost. Mr. Mackellar Brateau, whose bowls, trays and cups are capital
depicts admirably the grace
and beauty of bygone days,
and, whether he chooses as
the background of his very
human little dramas some
quaint cottage in Sussex or
some stately interior in
Scotland, he treats his
subjects with uniform skill.

PARIS. —What we
might hope to
find in this the
eleventh Exhibi-
tion of Female Artists would
be work by some of the more
distinguished . women of
talent, such as Mile. Breslau,
Mile. Claudel, Mile. Dufau,
Mme. Thaulow, Mme. Val-
gren, Mme. Girardet and
others. Nothing of the
kind is here : work devoid
o f character, hesitating
attempts, or servile
imitations—that is all
that can be said of this
display.

All who really care for
the decorative arts of
France have been inter-
ested in the exhibition of " la jeume servants " by m. caro-delvallie
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