DOI Heft:
No. 134 (May, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0373
Studio-Talk
MADRID.—The erection of a monument
by public subscription to the master
of modern oratory, Emilio Castelar,
has recently been furthered by an art
sale of unusual importance. The organising
committee received the adhesion of the greater
part of the leading Spanish artists—painters, sculp-
tors, and engravers alike—who presented original
works to be sold by auction. The net proceeds,
it seems, have surpassed 25,000 pesetas, thanks
being due to the liberality of the artists and pur-
chasers, as well as to the extreme kindness of
the Brothers Amare of Alcala Street, who lent
their modem and well-lighted hall for the occasion.
Jose Villegas' picture, entitled Recollection of the
Granja, was, no doubt, the clou of the exhibition.
A park scene towards evening when the clearness
of the air is diffused by lengthening shadows; in
the foreground a careless female figure, dressed in
white, and trailing a red parasol. Through the
foliage peeps the sun, lighting in brilliant blotches
the silk blouse, which vaguely reflects the shining
green of leaves and plants ; the startling red parasol
is a marvel of transparency and light.
Pradilla's study of morning lights and colours
is of the most daring execution. In the foreground
a brook boils to froth and foams among splashed
grey stones, forming here and there a sombre, cold
pool of opaque and blackish water.
Emilio Sala is very good and up to his best—
especially as concerns the flawless drawing and
the peculiar realism which characterises him—ra-
the scene in half-lights drawn from Galdos' last
novel, " Los Duendes de la Camarilla." An in-
terior in light browns, two old hags, deformed and
hideous, gesticulating in the foreground.
A finished picture of delicate touch is Llaneces'
Gentleman of the Seventeenth Century, a carefully
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MADRID.—The erection of a monument
by public subscription to the master
of modern oratory, Emilio Castelar,
has recently been furthered by an art
sale of unusual importance. The organising
committee received the adhesion of the greater
part of the leading Spanish artists—painters, sculp-
tors, and engravers alike—who presented original
works to be sold by auction. The net proceeds,
it seems, have surpassed 25,000 pesetas, thanks
being due to the liberality of the artists and pur-
chasers, as well as to the extreme kindness of
the Brothers Amare of Alcala Street, who lent
their modem and well-lighted hall for the occasion.
Jose Villegas' picture, entitled Recollection of the
Granja, was, no doubt, the clou of the exhibition.
A park scene towards evening when the clearness
of the air is diffused by lengthening shadows; in
the foreground a careless female figure, dressed in
white, and trailing a red parasol. Through the
foliage peeps the sun, lighting in brilliant blotches
the silk blouse, which vaguely reflects the shining
green of leaves and plants ; the startling red parasol
is a marvel of transparency and light.
Pradilla's study of morning lights and colours
is of the most daring execution. In the foreground
a brook boils to froth and foams among splashed
grey stones, forming here and there a sombre, cold
pool of opaque and blackish water.
Emilio Sala is very good and up to his best—
especially as concerns the flawless drawing and
the peculiar realism which characterises him—ra-
the scene in half-lights drawn from Galdos' last
novel, " Los Duendes de la Camarilla." An in-
terior in light browns, two old hags, deformed and
hideous, gesticulating in the foreground.
A finished picture of delicate touch is Llaneces'
Gentleman of the Seventeenth Century, a carefully
353