DOI article:
Illyne, Mary: A Russian painter, W. Pourwit
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A Russian Painter
are remarkable in their
harmony and truth.
In the spring of the same
year, at the International
Exhibition in Munich,
Pourwit had already re-
ceived a gold medal of
the second degree, and
before that, at Paris, a
medal of the third degree.
The impression produced
by his paintings was
universally so favourable
that he has received invi-
tations to send his pictures
all over the Continent:
Frankfort, Hanover, Berlin,
Dresden, Diisseldorf, and
Carlsruhe have all invited
"la dbrniere neige" by w. pourwit him to join in their Ex-
hibitions. In Russia
Pourwit exhibits at the
Pourwit speaks most enthusiastically of the Imperial Academy and at the exhibitions arranged
modern Norwegian and Swedish painters; for by Diagileff. His permanent residence is Riga,
them impressionism is not an end, it is a means of where his studio attracts the artistic public,
attaining their ideal. I think Mr. Pourwit's own Probably nothing in the rendering of nature's
works are a brilliant instance of the same principle. accidental effects has held for the painter's art
It is only about a few years since he began greater difficulties, or, where successful, greater
to exhibit abroad, and yet his fame is rapidly triumphs, than the painting of snow ; snow which
rising, and great things are expected from him. makes white linen look dark, and which is so much
It was the wonderful mixture of technique and whiter in itself than any white. A scheme of tones,
"stimmung" in all his paint-
ings that struck so much
the artistic world, when
he exhibited two of his
pictures at the International
Exhibition at Lyons. A
dipldme d'honneur, with
premiere medaille d'or, was
awarded him then; also a
croix de merite and the rank
of painter of the first class
for two of his pictures—
Soleil en Mars and Nuit
du Nord. The last is
assuredly one of his best
pictures, but no photo-
graph can give the delicate
colouring of the moon-
lit snow and the soft,
dark tones of the woods;
the faint, exquisite, pinkish
whites, the creams, the
greys, the deep blues, "l'or d'automne" by w. pourwit
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are remarkable in their
harmony and truth.
In the spring of the same
year, at the International
Exhibition in Munich,
Pourwit had already re-
ceived a gold medal of
the second degree, and
before that, at Paris, a
medal of the third degree.
The impression produced
by his paintings was
universally so favourable
that he has received invi-
tations to send his pictures
all over the Continent:
Frankfort, Hanover, Berlin,
Dresden, Diisseldorf, and
Carlsruhe have all invited
"la dbrniere neige" by w. pourwit him to join in their Ex-
hibitions. In Russia
Pourwit exhibits at the
Pourwit speaks most enthusiastically of the Imperial Academy and at the exhibitions arranged
modern Norwegian and Swedish painters; for by Diagileff. His permanent residence is Riga,
them impressionism is not an end, it is a means of where his studio attracts the artistic public,
attaining their ideal. I think Mr. Pourwit's own Probably nothing in the rendering of nature's
works are a brilliant instance of the same principle. accidental effects has held for the painter's art
It is only about a few years since he began greater difficulties, or, where successful, greater
to exhibit abroad, and yet his fame is rapidly triumphs, than the painting of snow ; snow which
rising, and great things are expected from him. makes white linen look dark, and which is so much
It was the wonderful mixture of technique and whiter in itself than any white. A scheme of tones,
"stimmung" in all his paint-
ings that struck so much
the artistic world, when
he exhibited two of his
pictures at the International
Exhibition at Lyons. A
dipldme d'honneur, with
premiere medaille d'or, was
awarded him then; also a
croix de merite and the rank
of painter of the first class
for two of his pictures—
Soleil en Mars and Nuit
du Nord. The last is
assuredly one of his best
pictures, but no photo-
graph can give the delicate
colouring of the moon-
lit snow and the soft,
dark tones of the woods;
the faint, exquisite, pinkish
whites, the creams, the
greys, the deep blues, "l'or d'automne" by w. pourwit
288