DOI Heft:
Nr. 181 (April 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20777#0265
Studio-Talk
Galleries, and of Camille Bourget, the wood-
engraver, who exhibited at the Cercle Volney,
I shall speak later on. H. F.
HELSINGFORS.-Of the many exhi-
bitions of art that have taken place
in Finland during the last four or
five months, that of Count Louis
Sparre was, perhaps, one of the most interesting,
both because of the variety and charm of the
pictures he exhibited and because of the promise
his woik gives of future accomplishment. Flis
pictures are, perhaps, less typically Finnish than
those of any of the other Finnish artists, but
the reason is not far to seek. Finland is the land
of his adoption and not the land of his birth.
Count Sparre was born in Italy, not far from
Milan, in the year 1863, his mother being an
Italian and his father belonging to an old and
“MASTER J. E. DAHLSTROM” BY COUNT LOUIS SPARRE
outset. Others who figured to advantage among
this group of foreigners were Cassiers, with
some little works noticeable for their warmth of
tone, Charlet, with an excellent remorqueur,
Mme. Montalba, Miles. Nourse and Bartlett.
I must refer briefly to several other exhibi-
tions held here lately. Of Frank Boggs—whose
water-colours have been on view at Georges
Petit’s—I should certainly have liked to say a
good deal, for his works are most agreeable,
and are animated by an extreme diversity of
theme which often reminds one of Jongkind (as
indeed does the artist’s style). At Allard’s,
Gaston Prunier, to whom reference has often
been made in these pages and who, let me add,
is very much in favour with the Parisian public
just now, showed a collection of water-colours—
the fruits of a visit to London. Never has
he played more skilfully with light than in his
interpretations of those fine haze effects which
one sees at various times of the day in the
neighbourhood of the Thames. I must not fail
to mention an interesting exhibition at the Salle
Chauchat, organized by the eminent critic Louis
Vauxcelles, who here gathered together a choice
selection of our foremost contemporary artists.
Of Chenard-IIuche’s exhibition at the Graves
246
“A STREET IN HELSINGFORS ” BY COUNT LOUIS SPARRE
Galleries, and of Camille Bourget, the wood-
engraver, who exhibited at the Cercle Volney,
I shall speak later on. H. F.
HELSINGFORS.-Of the many exhi-
bitions of art that have taken place
in Finland during the last four or
five months, that of Count Louis
Sparre was, perhaps, one of the most interesting,
both because of the variety and charm of the
pictures he exhibited and because of the promise
his woik gives of future accomplishment. Flis
pictures are, perhaps, less typically Finnish than
those of any of the other Finnish artists, but
the reason is not far to seek. Finland is the land
of his adoption and not the land of his birth.
Count Sparre was born in Italy, not far from
Milan, in the year 1863, his mother being an
Italian and his father belonging to an old and
“MASTER J. E. DAHLSTROM” BY COUNT LOUIS SPARRE
outset. Others who figured to advantage among
this group of foreigners were Cassiers, with
some little works noticeable for their warmth of
tone, Charlet, with an excellent remorqueur,
Mme. Montalba, Miles. Nourse and Bartlett.
I must refer briefly to several other exhibi-
tions held here lately. Of Frank Boggs—whose
water-colours have been on view at Georges
Petit’s—I should certainly have liked to say a
good deal, for his works are most agreeable,
and are animated by an extreme diversity of
theme which often reminds one of Jongkind (as
indeed does the artist’s style). At Allard’s,
Gaston Prunier, to whom reference has often
been made in these pages and who, let me add,
is very much in favour with the Parisian public
just now, showed a collection of water-colours—
the fruits of a visit to London. Never has
he played more skilfully with light than in his
interpretations of those fine haze effects which
one sees at various times of the day in the
neighbourhood of the Thames. I must not fail
to mention an interesting exhibition at the Salle
Chauchat, organized by the eminent critic Louis
Vauxcelles, who here gathered together a choice
selection of our foremost contemporary artists.
Of Chenard-IIuche’s exhibition at the Graves
246
“A STREET IN HELSINGFORS ” BY COUNT LOUIS SPARRE