Studio: international art (45.1909)

Studio-Talk

‘1 MORTON”

BY R. BERTRAND

(Salon des Humoristes,
Paris )

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PARIS.—Although
by the time
these lines are
published the
Salon des Humoristes will
have already been closed
for several weeks, the Ex-
hibition has been of too
great interest to make it
possible to pass it over
without some notice and
some words of encourage-
ment in The Studio, for

MONS. COQDELIN

BY R. BERTRAND

(Salon des Humoristes, Paris )

never fetched a hundred pounds—it is even stated
that fifty pounds was the most ever realised in a
London sale. Of course, there could be cited
many instances of the converse tendency. The
records we publish from time to time of prices
realised at picture sales show that “ slumps ” are
not by any means uncommon ; but we do not
remember any to match this extreme oscillation in
the case of Franz Hals. The “ swing of the pen-
dulum ” as it affects artistic reputations would
make a very interesting study.

DUBLIN.—Mr. W. P. French
is a water-colour painter of
much charm and individu-
ality, whose studies of the
damp skies and breezy boglands of his
native Roscommon have long been

familiar to the
exhibitions,
though out-
side Ireland
they are
pr obably
little known.
Much of
the attrac-
tiveness o f
Mr. French’s
work lies in
its unity of
feeling and
entirely per-
sonal inspiration, while
his sensitiveness to
atmospheric effect is
expressed in the liquid
quality of his painting,
in which the delicate
half-tones in the “veils
of air” are rendered with
an intimate perception
of their evanescent
beauty. E. D.

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