Studio: international art (32.1904)

Studio- Talk

PIECE OF THE CORONATION ROBE BY FREDERICK VIGERS

DESIGNED FOR HER MAJESTY QUEEN ALEXANDRA

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productions—the Porte de I'Enfer;
the Victor Hugo, Olympian in its
force; the Bourgeois de Calais, so
crude and yet so fine ; the grandiose
Claude Gellee, and all the other
magnificent pieces which reveal the
genius—now tumultuous, now serene
—of the master of modern French
sculpture—Rodin has done a whole
series of works which captivate one
by their exquisite feeling, their
supreme delicacy. Of such is the
woman's bust in marble, to be seen
in the Luxembourg Gallery, near
akin both in sentiment and in in-
spiration to the work now reproduced
here.

this season with his exqui-
site statuettes, which ad-
mirably interpret the
woman of to-day ; although
he at the same time fully re-
cognises, as did the Greeks
and the masters of the Re-
naissance, the limitations of
plastic art on a small scale.
It is simply impossible not
to be struck with the truth
to nature of these delightful
little effigies, with their
simple, unaffected gestures.
There is nothing left to
chance in them, and even
when they are draped the
spectator realises, as with
the statuettes from Tana-
gra, that their anatomy is
absolutely correct. The
critic will not fail to appre-
ciate the patient, perse-
vering study of life to
which they bear witness.

The decorative art section at the
Salon was, as is the case every year,
full of exhibits likely to arouse in-
terest and curiosity, and in a future
number we may be able to refer again
to this section of the exhibition. M.
Louis Dejean was especially happy
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