Studio: international art (43.1908)

“ dutton’s court, Norwich ”

BY MISS C. M. NICHOLS, R.E.

( See preceding article)

THE “FAIR WOMEN”

EXHIBITION OF THE IN-
TERNATIONAL SOCIETY.

In painting women the gifts of an artist
will avail nothing unless he is—to a small
extent at any rate—a mystic, and can find
his way to the source where women fill their
fans with meaning, and where the libretto
can be found for the music of a silk dress
crossing the floor. In any exhibition where
portraits are shown there are a number of
painters whose brush goes over the whole
of their canvas in a uniform, workmanlike
style, finding its way from one thing to
another, including the face, with a touch
everywhere unsympathetic, if everywhere
brilliant from the point of view of facile
execution. Mr. Sargent is such a high
priest to the modern school in England

“THE HON. MRS. WYNDHAM ” BY G. F. WATTS, R. A.

(By permission of the Hon. Percy Wyndham)

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The International Society s “ Fair Women ” Exhibition

that the younger painters try to begin their career
with his facility.

Amongst the many interests which the Inter-
national Society’s exhibition afforded were the
opportunities for comparing early and late pic-
tures by the same modern masters. Mr. Sargent
was at one time the pupil of Carolus-Duran,
and we could see Carolus-Duran’s art here as it
was at that time and as it is now. Similarly we
could compare the work of his great pupil and