Studio: international art (33.1905)

Studio- Talk

One of the most interest-
ing names at Concarneau
is that of Monsieur Alfred
Guillou, a native of the
place, whose paintings have
obtained much success in
France, though they are
almost unknown in Eng-
land. His work expresses
his natural bonhomie, and
also the other side of
his nature, which feels the
tears that linger so near
the smiles of life. Nearly
every year a large and
cosmopolitan gathering of
artists visit Concarneau,
but the real interest
lies with the small colony

AT CONCARNEAU BY KDYTHE R. PAEN

HERBERT S. HUNT IN HIS STUDIO FROM A PHOTOGRAPH . . , . ,

of habitues, who have

worked there for many
years. Nothing could be

early work. The salle-a-manger is panelled with of greater value than to visit the studios of these
pictures by various artists, and in the fine salon of serious workers and study the variety of technique
the annexe hang works by F. Fleury, Robert Wyllie, and temperament shown in their work.

Mrs. Adrian Stokes, and many others; all gifts to -

Mademoiselle Julia, the
owner of the hotel and

presiding genius of the ,..—— mjmfwn_:-^mrr~rT*Ta—Ttim"T*ii m* jfiTTTl—1—I

village.

What Capri is to Italy,
and Newlyn to Cornwall,
Concarneau seems to be
to Brittany. It is an ideal
home for artists, full of
movement, colour and ex-
pression, almost southern
in character, and wholly
unexpected to those whose
ideas of Brittany have been
formed by Pierre Loti's sad
and beautiful romances, or
Daudet's sketches. In
summer the whole popula-
tion of Concarneau works
at the sardine industry, and
winter is the artists' best
time for work, as the sardine
workers are idle then, and
only too glad to pose as
models for a trifling pay-
ment.

1 RETOUR DE LA PECHE" BY J. MILNER-KITE.

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