Studio: international art (31.1904)

Studio-Talk

M. Binet enchants one with the ruins of Pompeii'
with the sea gleaming behind like lapis lazuli.
Then he shows us Torre-Annunziata, with its mass
of fishermen's dwellings; or Palermo, with its
dazzling gardens, or nobly-formed Taormina. Par-
ticularly would I dwell on the interiors of the
Palatine chapel, wherein gold-work and glass and
pillars sparkle in a radiant symphony of colour.

As is the case every year in early winter, the
exhibitions are so many that it would be im-
possible for me to describe them all in these
notes, wherein I desire, to the best of my ability,
to record th?.t which is essential in the artistic
movement of the capital. Therefore I can do no
more than mention the exhibition of pastels by
Madame A. de Carie, at the Galerie des Artistes
Modernes ; or that of a diverse group of artists,
including Prouve, Madame G. de Lurieux,
Menard, Delaherche, and Henri Martin, who
displayed their productions on the premises
of M. Rivaud, the goldsmith; or the ceramic work
by Chaplet at Georges Petits.

, „ Steinlen has collected his works, and dis-

" LA CHAPELLE PALATINE (PALERME) BY R. BINET

played them in an exposition d'ensemble, which
reveals to the full this great artist's love of
Gustave Geffrey writes of him, "his works have reality and life, with which the readers of The
constructive power and luminous envelopment." Studio are familiar. Both as lithographer and

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