DOI issue:
Nr. 191 (February 1909)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20966#0088
Studio-Talk
BRONZE HEAD BY ADGUSTE RODIN
detailed study, for it must certainly be counted as
one of the most successful productions of decorative
art in France at the present day. The three photo-
graphs which we reproduce give a fairly good idea
of the furniture which M. Maurice Dufrene has
made for the house in question. It contains
besides some first - rate mural decorations. The
outer hall, which one reaches first on entering from
the street, is embellished with paintings by M.
Maurice Denis, who has here done some of his
best work. The dining-room has been entirely
decorated by Besnard, while Lalique has been res-
ponsible for all the appurtenances of the lighting,
and, lastly, around the top of the great gallery in
which M. Roucher’s pictures are hung there runs a
frieze by Desvallieres. Among M. Roucher’s art
treasures one must mention an excellent painting by
Baertsoen, and several important works by Lucien
Simon, Morrice and Charles Cottet.
In a charming exhibition at the Blot Galleries
in the Rue Richepanse, there has been gathered
together the work of several talented women artists,
66
among whom one must particularly mention the
daughter of the painter Osterlind, now Mme. E.
Sarradin, whose delightful water-colour studies of
flowers have all the roguishness and daintiness of
this style of painting, to which so many ladies
devote their energies without endowing their work
with any individuality.
At the recent Exhibition of the Works of Art pur-
chased by the State there were shown certain very
remarkable works lately acquired from Auguste
Rodin. Of these we reproduce two studies of heads
which are to be added to the sculpture collection at
the Luxembourg Museum. These are bronzes cast
from the wax, and strike one by the deep intensity
of their expression and their bold modelling.
As usual, the Societe Internationale has had its
annual display at Petit’s. The Society is now in
its twenty-fifth year, a very respectable age for a
body of this kind. Unfortunately the Society is no
longer what it used to be, having lost some of its
best supporters, who have gone over to the Societe
Nouvelle and other similar associations. Still it
continues to have an honourable existence, and
BRONZE HEAD
BY AUGUSTE RODIN
BRONZE HEAD BY ADGUSTE RODIN
detailed study, for it must certainly be counted as
one of the most successful productions of decorative
art in France at the present day. The three photo-
graphs which we reproduce give a fairly good idea
of the furniture which M. Maurice Dufrene has
made for the house in question. It contains
besides some first - rate mural decorations. The
outer hall, which one reaches first on entering from
the street, is embellished with paintings by M.
Maurice Denis, who has here done some of his
best work. The dining-room has been entirely
decorated by Besnard, while Lalique has been res-
ponsible for all the appurtenances of the lighting,
and, lastly, around the top of the great gallery in
which M. Roucher’s pictures are hung there runs a
frieze by Desvallieres. Among M. Roucher’s art
treasures one must mention an excellent painting by
Baertsoen, and several important works by Lucien
Simon, Morrice and Charles Cottet.
In a charming exhibition at the Blot Galleries
in the Rue Richepanse, there has been gathered
together the work of several talented women artists,
66
among whom one must particularly mention the
daughter of the painter Osterlind, now Mme. E.
Sarradin, whose delightful water-colour studies of
flowers have all the roguishness and daintiness of
this style of painting, to which so many ladies
devote their energies without endowing their work
with any individuality.
At the recent Exhibition of the Works of Art pur-
chased by the State there were shown certain very
remarkable works lately acquired from Auguste
Rodin. Of these we reproduce two studies of heads
which are to be added to the sculpture collection at
the Luxembourg Museum. These are bronzes cast
from the wax, and strike one by the deep intensity
of their expression and their bold modelling.
As usual, the Societe Internationale has had its
annual display at Petit’s. The Society is now in
its twenty-fifth year, a very respectable age for a
body of this kind. Unfortunately the Society is no
longer what it used to be, having lost some of its
best supporters, who have gone over to the Societe
Nouvelle and other similar associations. Still it
continues to have an honourable existence, and
BRONZE HEAD
BY AUGUSTE RODIN