Studio: international art (37.1906)

The International Society's Exhibition. First Notice

about in nature as regards their art. The example
of courageous individuality which they set is the
inspiration of the International Exhibition. All
the individuality which finds play on its walls,
the freedom which gives every man a hearing, was
made possible through the determined stand made
by the older Impressionists—a stand made for art
itself indirectly, but for individuality and the recog-
nition of the individual temperament in the first place,
opening thus the gate to art, variable and living.
After the exhibition last year at the Grafton Gallery,
the work of these elder Impressionists here seems but
a fragmentary representation of their genius; though
it is easy to understand this, considering the lack
of hanging space. The chief French exhibits this
year were Le Linge, Le Bain, and Tete de femme,
by Manet; La Plage, by Boudin ; Une Famille de
Pont FAbb'e, by Lucien Simon ; Datisenses bleues,
Les Blanchisseuses, and Savoisienne, by Degas;
Le Pont d'Argenteuil, Antibes, Le Jardin, by

Claude Monet; Nature Morte, by Cezanne; a
little picture, Sur I'Herbe, by Berthe Moresot,
teaching a lesson in its beautiful quality; and
three works by Renoir. Mention should be made
of four remarkable works by J. L. Forain and of the
pictures lent from America, the most interesting of
which was a painting, called Mother and Child, by
J. de Forest Brush, lent by the Pennsylvania
Academy.

Want of space compels us to leave till the
following number of The Studio our repro-
ductions from the sculpture, deserving, as it is,
of especial and separate notice. Sculpture met
with the recognition in this exhibition which
it has always lacked in England. By this fact
the exhibition of 1906 will be remembered, and
the International Society has set up for itself in
future, as regards sculpture, another remarkable
standard which it is to be hoped it will always
endeavour to maintain. The presence of several

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