DOI Heft:
No. 131 (February, 1904)
DOI Artikel:The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0082
The International Exhibition
any which has been opened in London for some appeared in The Studio), an aggressive achieve-
years past. There is, for instance, a delightful ment which, despite its want of beauty, has a mastery
full-length of a young girl, Miss Janie Martin, by which cannot be denied; and the most pleasing in
Sir James Guthrie, which combines in an excep- many ways is Miss MacNicol's Vanity, a nude girl
tional manner charm of characterisation with beauty seated on a couch and surrounded by draperies in
of colour arrangement and grace of technical shades of ashy grey and subdued rosy pink. M.
method; and there are two canvases by Mr. Claude Monet's large composition, Le Deieuner,
Lavery, The First Communion and A Lady in painted in 1868, is a robust tone study, ambitious
Pink, which are handled with superb directness, in scale and masculine in manner; M. Cottet's
and are almost entirely free from that fault of Deuil Marin, is a semi-decorative, semi-realistic
colour opacity, which has in the past diminished picture seriously designed and honestly treated ;
too often the attractiveness of his pictures, and Mr. C. H. Shannon's Bathers and The Toilet
M. J. E. Blanche's Portrait of a Child, too, is (here illustrated) are gracefully imagined and har-
very accomplished as an exercise in expressive monious in their schemes of low-toned colour,
brushwork; and Mr. Robert Brough's Captain M. Bauer's fantastic Pera (here illustrated), M. T.
Harvey Brooke of Fairley, M. Raffaelli's Portrait Millie Dow.'s Eve (already illustrated in The
of Miss R., M. A. H. Maurer's well painted but Studio), Mr. F. Newberry's The Embroiderer, and
ugly full-length The Dancer, M. Blanche's Portrait M. Vierge's Etude de Berger Espagnol, are things
of George Moore, and M. Neven du Mont's 1850, to remember.
a small full - length of a lady in a green dress, Few of the landscapes can be said to equal Mr.
deserve particular attention. Of the figure subjects E. A. Walton's delightful pastoral, an altogether
quite the most remarkable is Un Mot Piquant by charming arrangement of graceful lines and delicate
M. Zuloaga (of which an illustration has already tints sensitively carried out; but among the more
'DEUIL MARIN . BY CHARLES COTTET
66
any which has been opened in London for some appeared in The Studio), an aggressive achieve-
years past. There is, for instance, a delightful ment which, despite its want of beauty, has a mastery
full-length of a young girl, Miss Janie Martin, by which cannot be denied; and the most pleasing in
Sir James Guthrie, which combines in an excep- many ways is Miss MacNicol's Vanity, a nude girl
tional manner charm of characterisation with beauty seated on a couch and surrounded by draperies in
of colour arrangement and grace of technical shades of ashy grey and subdued rosy pink. M.
method; and there are two canvases by Mr. Claude Monet's large composition, Le Deieuner,
Lavery, The First Communion and A Lady in painted in 1868, is a robust tone study, ambitious
Pink, which are handled with superb directness, in scale and masculine in manner; M. Cottet's
and are almost entirely free from that fault of Deuil Marin, is a semi-decorative, semi-realistic
colour opacity, which has in the past diminished picture seriously designed and honestly treated ;
too often the attractiveness of his pictures, and Mr. C. H. Shannon's Bathers and The Toilet
M. J. E. Blanche's Portrait of a Child, too, is (here illustrated) are gracefully imagined and har-
very accomplished as an exercise in expressive monious in their schemes of low-toned colour,
brushwork; and Mr. Robert Brough's Captain M. Bauer's fantastic Pera (here illustrated), M. T.
Harvey Brooke of Fairley, M. Raffaelli's Portrait Millie Dow.'s Eve (already illustrated in The
of Miss R., M. A. H. Maurer's well painted but Studio), Mr. F. Newberry's The Embroiderer, and
ugly full-length The Dancer, M. Blanche's Portrait M. Vierge's Etude de Berger Espagnol, are things
of George Moore, and M. Neven du Mont's 1850, to remember.
a small full - length of a lady in a green dress, Few of the landscapes can be said to equal Mr.
deserve particular attention. Of the figure subjects E. A. Walton's delightful pastoral, an altogether
quite the most remarkable is Un Mot Piquant by charming arrangement of graceful lines and delicate
M. Zuloaga (of which an illustration has already tints sensitively carried out; but among the more
'DEUIL MARIN . BY CHARLES COTTET
66