Studio: international art (30.1904)

Studio- Talk

Rawlins and Miss M. Z.
Hoyer stimulated the
growing interest in the
revival of this art. H. B. B.

P

kARIS.—Despite
the hostility and
the obstacles the
autumn Salon has
had to meet, its first
exhibition was, never-
theless, an undoubted
success. Although the
galleries at the Petit
Palais are small, low,
and ill-lighted, the
Parisian public was deter-
mined to see the exhi-
bition in all its details.
Truth to tell, here was a
Salon differing altogether,
not only in its mode of
obtaining recruits but in
its appearance, from past
Salons. The Salon des
Artistes Francais is, in-
deed, composed almost
exclusively of members of
the Institut, professors
and their pupils, while
the Societe Nationale is
formed from the nucleus

" EFFET I)E NEIGE AU BEG U IN AGE A GAND " 1SY F. WILLAERT of highly talented artists

who have deserted the old
Salon, but remain obsti-
Miss B. A. Pughe, Joseph Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Gray nately out of touch with the new elements.

Hill, W. Follen Bishop, W. Wardlaw Laing, John -

Finnie, Miss Mary Hagarty, Miss Mary McCrossan, The autumn Salon, on the other hand, combines
and Miss Constance Read. the most diverse elements, and it would be hard
- to find here that cohesion which was to be

In the sculpture room Charity was the title of a remarked in the first exhibition at the Champ de
sketch model of a noble group forming a portion Mars. It may be doubted, moreover, if the new
of the Liverpool Queen Victoria Memorial, con- Salon can show us talent such as that which first
tributed by Charles J. Allen, and a delightful bronze earned fame in the galleries of the Champ de
statuette, Andromeda, and a copper panel, Sunrise, Mars—talent like that of Aman-Jean, Menard,
attracted attention to the delicate modelling of Cottet, Simon, and many others. But the indisput-
J. Crossland McClure. A I'ortrait Medallion in able interest of the autumn Salon lies in this : that
copper by Frank J. Norbury and a clever Sketch for the first time it brings together representatives
Model for a Sundial by Miss Ethel Martin were of various schools. Among them one may find, a
also worthy of special notice. large number of independents, impressionists, or
- neo-impressionists, including M. Vuillard, whose

Among the examples of hand-wrought jewellery dining-room, so discreetly harmonious and dis-
was the fine silver-and-enamel work by Miss Lily tinguished in its tones, reveals the true painter.
Day, and the equally delightful designs by G. E. H. M. Laparde, on the contrary, appears to me to

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