Studio: international art (45.1909)

Studio-Talk

carved frieze (Salon des Humoristes, Paris) by réalier-dümas

this little Salon comes very near being one of the best
and most “ live ” exhibitions in Paris. No one can
deny that humorous drawings, equally with carica-
tures, are being executed with success by a large
number of talented artists, and it is no news to our
readers, even those in the more remote places,
that such men as Forain, Caran d’Ache, Willette,
Léandre, Faivre, Jeanniot, are among the artists of
whom this country is most justly proud. They
were, moreover, represented by some most excel-
lent work exhibited and very happily arranged in
the Hall of the Palais de Glace by M. Valmy-
Baysse, the energetic secretary of the society.

But it is not in this that
the novelty of the Exhi-
bition lay, but rather in
the interesting retrospec-
tive section, which was
the feature of this year’s
show, and which has been
undoubtedly of consider-
able educational value to
the French public.

This retrospective sec-
tion comprised a first-rate collection of the works
of English humorists of the iSlh century, from
Hogarth to Leech. Furthermore, one had an
opportunity of making acquaintance with the
little-known work of artists like Birch, Bretherton,
Woodward, Wigstead, Bunbury, Collett, Cruik-
shank, Gillray, Dunthorne, Heath, Hogarth,
Holland, de Loutherbourg, Morland and Rowland-
son, to whose eccentric talent about three hundred
works bore ample witness. Also of primary
interest, like these, was a series of lithographs
executed during his early years, from 1845-
1852, by Gustave Doré, and which most wittily