DOI Heft:
No. 184 (July 1912)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: The salon of the Société des Artistes Francais
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20778#0153
The Societe des Artistes Francais
Apart from the large pictures, there were to be
found various excellent works expressive of another
order of ideas. Let me mention first of all Mr.
Miller’s portraits of children, remarkable for their
extraordinary freshness of colour. This artist, of
whom one has heard but little hitherto, has put
himself per saltum in the front rank of the foreign
exhibitors of the Old Salon. The Society des
Artistes Frangais can, for the matter of that, boast
of having a good few foreign artists of note among
its exhibitors. To the majority of the foreigners,
indeed, who have not followed the evolution of
French art very closely, this Salon has continued
to be the only Salon. That is why when the
most personal of our contemporary artists, as
Besnard, La Touche, Cottet, Simon, have gone over
to the Nationale, various eminent foreign artists have
remained faithful to the older organization. Among
these is the brilliant portraitist Laszld, represented
at this last show by a vigorously painted head of a
woman and a portrait, full
of life, of the English
painter Mr. Alfred East,
who himself scored a
triumph with two of those
powerful impressions of
nature of which he holds
the secret. Then there
was Mrs. McLane Johan-
sen, who sent a canvas
bearing the title Sur le
Haut de la Colline, an
excellent example of plein-
air methods; also Madame
de Wentworth, Mr. Leo
Mielziner, Mr. Tom
Mostyn, M. Tito Salas,
M. Jean Styka, Mr.
Edward Swinson, and,
above all, M. Carlos Vaz-
quez, whose picture, with
its very vigorous handling
and richness of coloration,
deservedly attracted the
notice of artists.
M. Robert-Fleury, the
distinguished President of
the Societe des Artistes
Franqais, has made a spe-
ciality of costumes and
scenes belonging to the
period of the French Revo-
lution. The figure of a
“sous la revolution” liv t. robert-fleury woman, to which he has
that in this canvas he has, for the most part,
obtained the effect at which he has aimed.
A large triptych byM. EugbneChigot also achieved
a well-merited success. It is a work destined for
a Children’s Convalescent Home at Dunkirk, and
in giving it the title Reiour a la Vie par la Mer
et les Cha7nps, the painter leaves us in no doubt
as to its intention. But there is something better
here; there is good, sound painting. The panel
in the middle, representing the sea shore at low
tide, illuminated by the rays of the setting sun
which mingle with the water-spray, recalls certain
favourite motifs of this painter; but to our thinking
the right-hand panel is that in which the artist has
succeeded best, and it is one in which his kinship
to the vigorous Flemish School is very clearly
attested. It is at once a very true and pleasing
impression of nature which is given in this flowery
garden set in a frame-work of dunes, with a wind-
mill on the horizon and overhead a fleecy sky.
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Apart from the large pictures, there were to be
found various excellent works expressive of another
order of ideas. Let me mention first of all Mr.
Miller’s portraits of children, remarkable for their
extraordinary freshness of colour. This artist, of
whom one has heard but little hitherto, has put
himself per saltum in the front rank of the foreign
exhibitors of the Old Salon. The Society des
Artistes Frangais can, for the matter of that, boast
of having a good few foreign artists of note among
its exhibitors. To the majority of the foreigners,
indeed, who have not followed the evolution of
French art very closely, this Salon has continued
to be the only Salon. That is why when the
most personal of our contemporary artists, as
Besnard, La Touche, Cottet, Simon, have gone over
to the Nationale, various eminent foreign artists have
remained faithful to the older organization. Among
these is the brilliant portraitist Laszld, represented
at this last show by a vigorously painted head of a
woman and a portrait, full
of life, of the English
painter Mr. Alfred East,
who himself scored a
triumph with two of those
powerful impressions of
nature of which he holds
the secret. Then there
was Mrs. McLane Johan-
sen, who sent a canvas
bearing the title Sur le
Haut de la Colline, an
excellent example of plein-
air methods; also Madame
de Wentworth, Mr. Leo
Mielziner, Mr. Tom
Mostyn, M. Tito Salas,
M. Jean Styka, Mr.
Edward Swinson, and,
above all, M. Carlos Vaz-
quez, whose picture, with
its very vigorous handling
and richness of coloration,
deservedly attracted the
notice of artists.
M. Robert-Fleury, the
distinguished President of
the Societe des Artistes
Franqais, has made a spe-
ciality of costumes and
scenes belonging to the
period of the French Revo-
lution. The figure of a
“sous la revolution” liv t. robert-fleury woman, to which he has
that in this canvas he has, for the most part,
obtained the effect at which he has aimed.
A large triptych byM. EugbneChigot also achieved
a well-merited success. It is a work destined for
a Children’s Convalescent Home at Dunkirk, and
in giving it the title Reiour a la Vie par la Mer
et les Cha7nps, the painter leaves us in no doubt
as to its intention. But there is something better
here; there is good, sound painting. The panel
in the middle, representing the sea shore at low
tide, illuminated by the rays of the setting sun
which mingle with the water-spray, recalls certain
favourite motifs of this painter; but to our thinking
the right-hand panel is that in which the artist has
succeeded best, and it is one in which his kinship
to the vigorous Flemish School is very clearly
attested. It is at once a very true and pleasing
impression of nature which is given in this flowery
garden set in a frame-work of dunes, with a wind-
mill on the horizon and overhead a fleecy sky.
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