DOI Heft:
No. 131 (February, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Geffroy, Gustave: The modern French pastellists: Charles Milcendeau
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0045
Charles Milcendeau s Pastels
of long, long labour and one fixed idea—the land, and his thought. He produced in Paris splendid
The women are the obedient slaves of the same portraits, wherein one may find the same intensity
plan—looking in turn after the soup, the cattle, as one finds in his silhouettes and his Vendeen
and the children. And in the case of the old features. He has conceived and executed paint-
women, who turn their spinning-wheels, and knit ings which are the logical sequence of his coloured
and sew, or beg under some ruined church porch, drawings. But I come back inevitably to these
we see that calm, passive resignation which suggests drawings of his. They are justly treasured, for
the life of the moss-covered stone. their fortunate owners know well they hold posses-
I have been a witness of almost all Milcendeau's sion of work by one of the most original draughts-
self-combating. I have watched him try diversions, man among the new generation of French artists,
travels. One cannot forget the charming scenes Gustave Geffroy.
and portraits he brought back after a sojourn in _
some mountainous village in Spain. With him
nothing was wasted. He "found himself," and his We have received the following note from our
mind grasped the meaning of comparison. So he correspondent in Melbourne : The Trustees of the
returned home stronger than when he started, with Melbourne National Gallery have lately purchased
a clearer view of the mysterious nature of the life several drawings by the late Phil May. It will be
around him. Now and henceforth he 's in full remembered that May was for several years—in the
possession of his fancy, and can apply his special 'eighties—a staff artist on the " Sydney Bulletin."
form of art to any spectacle demanding his notice The drawings purchased by the trustees were some
of those submitted at public
auction of the works by
the " Bulletin " proprietors.
The display of the works
•< ^ '''"^f^l &^^^f ^ the^ work of a young
artist, Mr. Norman Lindsay,
from the pastel by charles milcendeau very prosperous condition.
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of long, long labour and one fixed idea—the land, and his thought. He produced in Paris splendid
The women are the obedient slaves of the same portraits, wherein one may find the same intensity
plan—looking in turn after the soup, the cattle, as one finds in his silhouettes and his Vendeen
and the children. And in the case of the old features. He has conceived and executed paint-
women, who turn their spinning-wheels, and knit ings which are the logical sequence of his coloured
and sew, or beg under some ruined church porch, drawings. But I come back inevitably to these
we see that calm, passive resignation which suggests drawings of his. They are justly treasured, for
the life of the moss-covered stone. their fortunate owners know well they hold posses-
I have been a witness of almost all Milcendeau's sion of work by one of the most original draughts-
self-combating. I have watched him try diversions, man among the new generation of French artists,
travels. One cannot forget the charming scenes Gustave Geffroy.
and portraits he brought back after a sojourn in _
some mountainous village in Spain. With him
nothing was wasted. He "found himself," and his We have received the following note from our
mind grasped the meaning of comparison. So he correspondent in Melbourne : The Trustees of the
returned home stronger than when he started, with Melbourne National Gallery have lately purchased
a clearer view of the mysterious nature of the life several drawings by the late Phil May. It will be
around him. Now and henceforth he 's in full remembered that May was for several years—in the
possession of his fancy, and can apply his special 'eighties—a staff artist on the " Sydney Bulletin."
form of art to any spectacle demanding his notice The drawings purchased by the trustees were some
of those submitted at public
auction of the works by
the " Bulletin " proprietors.
The display of the works
•< ^ '''"^f^l &^^^f ^ the^ work of a young
artist, Mr. Norman Lindsay,
from the pastel by charles milcendeau very prosperous condition.
la fileuse
29