DOI Heft:
No. 133 (April, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Keyzer, Frances: The modern French pastellists: Alfred Philippe Roll
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0247
A. P. Roll's Pastels
THE MODERN FRENCH grouping of men and women of all conditions, the
PASTELLISTS.__ALFRED °f making the State order for a commemoration,
PHILIPPE ROLL BY MA a slice of life—as the French have it—the power
DAME FRANCES KEYZER ^ of throwing himself into the station melancholy
or gay, whichever he may be called upon to
It is no easy matter to do justice to the work illustrate, extracting the very essence of it. They
of M. Alfred Philippe Roll in a short causerie, do not show his Centenary of 1789 (Versailles
but the attempt must be made, and if the sub- Museum), his 14th of July, his Joies de la Vie
ject outgrows the frame it will show that the (Paris Hotel de Ville), his Greve des Mineurs ; nor
frame must be extended at some future time. his Scenes from Peasant Life, his Manda Lamettrie,
As I think of the fermiere, at the Luxembourg; nor his horses, his
colossal work of the sea-pieces or portraits.
French painter, the g^. There are few celebrities of the day who have
picture of Alice in fUH not been painted by M. Roll. I have still a vivid
Wonderland comes be- recollection of his portrait of President Carnot, of
fore me with her neck Jules Simon, Alexandre Dumas fils, Yves Guyot,
outstretched beyond all Thaulow and his wife, Admiral Krantz, Jane
proportion to her body. -=»- Hading, Coquelin cadet, to mention but a few.
It is this sense of neck- laKm^^mKKk Of his sea-pieces 1 recall a Mer Fuiiebre, a fear-
stretching that obtrudes ful iron-grey sea that told of the dead beneath it,
itself, dealing with M. y • j and gave the impression of a monster waiting to
Roll as a pastellist. His /' consume; an angry, searching, scowling sea that
pastels are but an in- / killed. This work impressed me strongly as an
finitesimal part of the unusual mood of the painter of Les Joies de la Vie,
whole. They can give and seemed like the tearing away of a veil that hid
but a small idea of him tr0w^^elLVER the trourjled fight, the moments of discouragement,
as a composer, as a by Alexander fisher the despair that every artist experiences, no matter
harmonist. They do (Reproduced by kind fermis- how successful the world considers him.
, , sion of H.R.H. Princess _ , ■ . . ....
not touch the manage- Christian) I ranslatmg the sensation of painting into music
ment of masses, the (See article on Alex. Fisher) M. Roll appeals to me as Mendelssohn in his
happy, laughter - loving
^^^^^^^^M the undercur-
duced here we have a new
zj3*L '"^§& phase in the versatility of
j^l^H the painter, the nude in all
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.^^ brilliance, almost temp-
T^} pioneer of this movement
M*rfft]m~-. among the present
and air came as something
very refreshing and had a
great influence on the art
design for a chain for the by alexander fisher , , .
lady mayoress of cape town °' t0 ^ " w£ls 111 *
(See article on Alexander Fisher) measure owing to this
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THE MODERN FRENCH grouping of men and women of all conditions, the
PASTELLISTS.__ALFRED °f making the State order for a commemoration,
PHILIPPE ROLL BY MA a slice of life—as the French have it—the power
DAME FRANCES KEYZER ^ of throwing himself into the station melancholy
or gay, whichever he may be called upon to
It is no easy matter to do justice to the work illustrate, extracting the very essence of it. They
of M. Alfred Philippe Roll in a short causerie, do not show his Centenary of 1789 (Versailles
but the attempt must be made, and if the sub- Museum), his 14th of July, his Joies de la Vie
ject outgrows the frame it will show that the (Paris Hotel de Ville), his Greve des Mineurs ; nor
frame must be extended at some future time. his Scenes from Peasant Life, his Manda Lamettrie,
As I think of the fermiere, at the Luxembourg; nor his horses, his
colossal work of the sea-pieces or portraits.
French painter, the g^. There are few celebrities of the day who have
picture of Alice in fUH not been painted by M. Roll. I have still a vivid
Wonderland comes be- recollection of his portrait of President Carnot, of
fore me with her neck Jules Simon, Alexandre Dumas fils, Yves Guyot,
outstretched beyond all Thaulow and his wife, Admiral Krantz, Jane
proportion to her body. -=»- Hading, Coquelin cadet, to mention but a few.
It is this sense of neck- laKm^^mKKk Of his sea-pieces 1 recall a Mer Fuiiebre, a fear-
stretching that obtrudes ful iron-grey sea that told of the dead beneath it,
itself, dealing with M. y • j and gave the impression of a monster waiting to
Roll as a pastellist. His /' consume; an angry, searching, scowling sea that
pastels are but an in- / killed. This work impressed me strongly as an
finitesimal part of the unusual mood of the painter of Les Joies de la Vie,
whole. They can give and seemed like the tearing away of a veil that hid
but a small idea of him tr0w^^elLVER the trourjled fight, the moments of discouragement,
as a composer, as a by Alexander fisher the despair that every artist experiences, no matter
harmonist. They do (Reproduced by kind fermis- how successful the world considers him.
, , sion of H.R.H. Princess _ , ■ . . ....
not touch the manage- Christian) I ranslatmg the sensation of painting into music
ment of masses, the (See article on Alex. Fisher) M. Roll appeals to me as Mendelssohn in his
happy, laughter - loving
^^^^^^^^M the undercur-
duced here we have a new
zj3*L '"^§& phase in the versatility of
j^l^H the painter, the nude in all
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.^^ brilliance, almost temp-
T^} pioneer of this movement
M*rfft]m~-. among the present
and air came as something
very refreshing and had a
great influence on the art
design for a chain for the by alexander fisher , , .
lady mayoress of cape town °' t0 ^ " w£ls 111 *
(See article on Alexander Fisher) measure owing to this
228