DOI issue:
No. 198 (September, 1908)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0339
Studio-Talk
necklace designed and executed by Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Gaskin. Our illustration is reproduced
from an autochrome photograph taken by Mr.
Harold Baker, of Birmingham. The necklace,
consisting of chain and pendant, is executed in
18 carat pale gold, and, as will be seen, is a very
delicate piece of workmanship. The exquisite hue
of the two large cabochon sapphires at the centre
of the chain and pendant supplies the dominant
note in the colour scheme. Around the sapphires
are emeralds, pearls, and pink topaz, while small
diamonds set in trefoils add little points of light to
the ornament as a whole. Mr. Gaskin, we need
hardly mention, is head-master of the special
school for jewellers and silversmiths in Yittoria
Street.
PARIS.—After a retirement of several years,
during which time he has devoted him-
self exclusively to his art, M. Charles
Milcendeau has made his reappearance
before the Parisian public, in an exhibition at the
Dewambez Galleries of an entire series of most
interesting pictures. One knows well that M. Mil-
cendeau has always possessed the reputation of
being an untiring and a conscientious recorder of
different aspects of life, and certain of his works,
so minutely, and yet again at times so boldly,
executed, are pre-eminent in respect of their sin-
cerity of observation and their unfaltering technique.
For long he devoted his talent to the portrayal of
the peasant life of La Vendee, but now he returns
with the fruits of a few years’ sojourn in Spain—
not the Spain of the tourist, but a Spain poor, sad,
melancholy, with rugged barren landscapes and an
indigent population, but all, notwithstanding, full
of character. A very charming feature of these
pastel drawings of Milcendeau is the absence of
trickery and conventionality; he never makes it
his deliberate aim to be seductive, though he
frequently succeeds in arousing our sympathy and
enthusiasm by the great strength which betrays
itself in his work.
Among recent works to which M. Eugene
Bejot has given his signature, the two plates here
reproduced are particularly notable as recording
those aspects of Paris with which he is so much
“ FAMILLK ESPAGNOLE
BY CHARLES MILCENDEAU
necklace designed and executed by Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Gaskin. Our illustration is reproduced
from an autochrome photograph taken by Mr.
Harold Baker, of Birmingham. The necklace,
consisting of chain and pendant, is executed in
18 carat pale gold, and, as will be seen, is a very
delicate piece of workmanship. The exquisite hue
of the two large cabochon sapphires at the centre
of the chain and pendant supplies the dominant
note in the colour scheme. Around the sapphires
are emeralds, pearls, and pink topaz, while small
diamonds set in trefoils add little points of light to
the ornament as a whole. Mr. Gaskin, we need
hardly mention, is head-master of the special
school for jewellers and silversmiths in Yittoria
Street.
PARIS.—After a retirement of several years,
during which time he has devoted him-
self exclusively to his art, M. Charles
Milcendeau has made his reappearance
before the Parisian public, in an exhibition at the
Dewambez Galleries of an entire series of most
interesting pictures. One knows well that M. Mil-
cendeau has always possessed the reputation of
being an untiring and a conscientious recorder of
different aspects of life, and certain of his works,
so minutely, and yet again at times so boldly,
executed, are pre-eminent in respect of their sin-
cerity of observation and their unfaltering technique.
For long he devoted his talent to the portrayal of
the peasant life of La Vendee, but now he returns
with the fruits of a few years’ sojourn in Spain—
not the Spain of the tourist, but a Spain poor, sad,
melancholy, with rugged barren landscapes and an
indigent population, but all, notwithstanding, full
of character. A very charming feature of these
pastel drawings of Milcendeau is the absence of
trickery and conventionality; he never makes it
his deliberate aim to be seductive, though he
frequently succeeds in arousing our sympathy and
enthusiasm by the great strength which betrays
itself in his work.
Among recent works to which M. Eugene
Bejot has given his signature, the two plates here
reproduced are particularly notable as recording
those aspects of Paris with which he is so much
“ FAMILLK ESPAGNOLE
BY CHARLES MILCENDEAU