Studio: international art (31.1904)

Studio-Talk

The metal work illus-
trated on pages 341 to 344.
of the January number,
from designs by Mr. Claude
New, was all carried out
for a house at Richmond,
Surrey, by Mr. Dendy
Wray, of the firm of Blunt
& Wray.

P

kARIS.—Each suc-
ceeding annual
exhibition of the
Societe Inter-
nationale still further con-
firms the impression that
the vitality of this group is
"la source" by a- rodin steadily diminishing, and

that there is nothing left
but for it to disappear

On page 75 we give an illustration of a drawing entirely. A few exceptions apart, one finds oneself
entitled A Yorkshire Market, by Mr. T. M. constantly face to face with what may be styled
Heaton, a clever pupil of the Herkomer School the " Seen-already " — mediocre work which

at Bushey. _ one would really like better were it absolutely bad,

but which simply is clear evidence of a played-

An exhibition of drawings, unusual both in its out tendency. What is to be said of M. Bouchor,
character and its excellence, has been held in the or M. Legout-Gerard, or M. Dagnaux, or M. Fourie,
Goupil Gallery. There were in it exqui- or M. Gosselin, unless it be this : that they are
site examples of such masters as Millet, Diaz, merely marking time; that, beyond the facture,
Rousseau, Corot, Daubigny, and Jacque ; of there is nothing in their work ? The great interest
Mr. R. Fowler, Mr. F.
Mura, Mr Muirhead Bone,
and Mr. Linley Sam-
bourne ; of Mr. Leslie
Thomson, Mr. Austen
Brown, Mr. Moffat
Lindner, Mr. George
Thomson, Mr. Mark Fisher,
Mr. Buxton Knight, Mr.
Montague Smyth, Mr.
R. W. Allan, and Mr.
H. B. Brabazon. But
quite the most attrac-
tive section of the show
was the group of Whistler
drawings—admirably selec-
ted illustrations of his
rare skill as a draughts-
man, and of his wonderful
control over refinements
of modelling and line
arrangement.

' dernieres pensees by a. rodin.

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