Studio: international art (39.1907)

The Exhibition of Russian Art in Paris

ruined ramparts raising
their heads amid deserts
of stone; Petrovitcheff,
who in like manner chants
so feelingly the melancholy
of the winter landscapes of
the North; and Koustodieff,
another artist who strives
to express textually the
spectacles which strike his
eye; also Yuon, whose work
is marked by great technical
skill—and many others.

It has been urged against
this exhibition that it was
not complete, in that it
neglected several contem-
porary Russian artists. Be
by prince paul troubetzkoy that as it may, I hold that

by one of his Barques en
peche panels, and several
little canvases painted with
truly extraoidinary vigour

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An immense panel by
Vroubel suffered for lack i jWHyBR'.Bj „

of the space needed to see ^tHElKil^^^H

it properly, but several

smaller works gave one the , mm

opportunity to appreciate 4mSI

the achievement of the nH „ Vm '■ ■' %,

celebrated Russian decora- blfflBP^P ^BK

tor. Golovine seemed to j '/ , u^.- ]ft " "l|

me to be well represented

by his Decors, which well .
illustrate his conception of 1

decorative painting. Pro- H^HttnnH|''.':

minent also were the two
Milliottis, Perepletchikoff
and Setoff, who is certainly
a most powerful colourist.
Then we had Soudeikine
and RylofT, a good land-
scapist; Grabar, whose
harmonies resemble those
of Le Sidaner; Mile. Bak-
lund, who loves to paint

great forests buried in ^^^K^Hfl^^H

winter's snow; Kousnet-
zoff; and Bogaievsky, the

painter of desolate land- —--~---1 ' •*'*m*x< -iie"-i^ •

scapes, of towns with " peasant women " (The -troferty ofPrince S. Stcherbatoff) by p. malyavine

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