DOI issue:
No. 134 (May, 1904)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0361
Studio- Talk
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PANEL IN GESSO AND MOTHER-O'-PEARL BY PICKFORD MARRIOTT °^ tneSe drawings give One
the same complete satisfac-
tion that one derives from
unknown in London. But we have to thank a life-size oil picture or marble. In fact, he solves
Messrs. Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell for giving, the problem, how to achieve in a small picture a
during the past month, the first important exhibi- degree of completeness impossible in other
tion of his work on this side of the Channel. The mediums, save on a larger scale,
restriction of this exhibition to drawings lent it a -
peculiar charm, for, thanks to the artist's marvellous Most of his drawings are on thick, soft paper of
variety of technique, its unity was anything but a bistre tint, where the red and black chalk combine
monotonous. in a variety of effects, relieved by touches of white.
The varying ratio of the chalks to one another is
Naturally a keen observer of human character, most skilfully managed, and his use of white is,
M. Monod is both intensely human and in- perhaps, the most interesting of all: the few touches
tensely intellectual, from which it follows that of it, for example, in a drawing like Sommeil (here
he is a psychologist; but it is not his function reproduced) are quite masterly. But it is impossible,
to desire to concentrate in his portraits a person- in a short note like this, to enter into the details
ality into one moment of penetrating and of a technique as skilful as it is elaborate. Suffice
vigorous interpretation, or to summarise in an it to note with what perfect ease he expresses him-
individual the meaning to the world of an epoch, self, whether in the extremely finished and delicate
a dynasty, a class. His purpose and his power work, as the portrait, or in the bold firm lines of
move on another plane. He is nothing if not the Sommeil.
i?itimate. What interests him in a human
being are those elusive traits which, though not An admirable collection of drawings of wild
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~ intuition^ 0110 as e
JJ| charming studies ^in Louis
PANEL IN GESSO AND MOTHER-O'-PEARL BY PICKFORD MARRIOTT °^ tneSe drawings give One
the same complete satisfac-
tion that one derives from
unknown in London. But we have to thank a life-size oil picture or marble. In fact, he solves
Messrs. Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell for giving, the problem, how to achieve in a small picture a
during the past month, the first important exhibi- degree of completeness impossible in other
tion of his work on this side of the Channel. The mediums, save on a larger scale,
restriction of this exhibition to drawings lent it a -
peculiar charm, for, thanks to the artist's marvellous Most of his drawings are on thick, soft paper of
variety of technique, its unity was anything but a bistre tint, where the red and black chalk combine
monotonous. in a variety of effects, relieved by touches of white.
The varying ratio of the chalks to one another is
Naturally a keen observer of human character, most skilfully managed, and his use of white is,
M. Monod is both intensely human and in- perhaps, the most interesting of all: the few touches
tensely intellectual, from which it follows that of it, for example, in a drawing like Sommeil (here
he is a psychologist; but it is not his function reproduced) are quite masterly. But it is impossible,
to desire to concentrate in his portraits a person- in a short note like this, to enter into the details
ality into one moment of penetrating and of a technique as skilful as it is elaborate. Suffice
vigorous interpretation, or to summarise in an it to note with what perfect ease he expresses him-
individual the meaning to the world of an epoch, self, whether in the extremely finished and delicate
a dynasty, a class. His purpose and his power work, as the portrait, or in the bold firm lines of
move on another plane. He is nothing if not the Sommeil.
i?itimate. What interests him in a human
being are those elusive traits which, though not An admirable collection of drawings of wild
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