Studio: international art (47.1909)

Studio-Talk

entrance to the Bois de la Cambre, the fashionable
promenade of the capital. The work is of very
striking allure, and in composition most cleverly
conceived. It is rather a pity, perhaps, that its
position, albeit chosen by the artist himself, does
not allow of the group being sufficiently isolated.
Had it been mounted on a rather higher pedestal
and on a site that would have permitted of its
silhouette being seen from all sides, one would
have had a better opportunity of appreciating the
felicitous disposal of the masses and the spaces,
and the essential lines of this remarkable group.

The authorities of the town of Brussels without,
as is the usual custom, having recourse to the
lottery of a public ballot, have: confirmed for a
further period of nine years MM. Kufferath and
Guide in their appointments as directors of the
Theatre royal de la Monnaie. The life of Brussels
is so inextricably bound up with that of the
The'atre de la Monnaie that all that concerns the
latter has, as some one has very truly remarked, all
the importance of an official civic occurrence. The
expression of sympathy and approbation towards
the artist-directors has met with warm support on
all sides. Their friends and admirers, as a mark
of the affectionate esteem in which they hold the
directors, and with a desire to commemorate in
tangible form the first period of MM. Kufferath
and Guides fraternal collaboration, entrusted
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Mons. G. Devreese with the execution of a plaquette
bearing the double portrait of the directors, which
we here reproduce. Several reproductions of M.
Devreese’s talented work have already appeared in
The Studio, and this last piece from the hands of
the Belgian sculptor—of whose work, by-the-bye,
the Musee du Luxembourg already possesses an im-
portant ensemble—in no way falls short of the high
standard of his previous achievements. F. K.

MUNICH.—The Kunstverein of Munich
recently held an exhibition of land-
scapes in water colour by Fritz Bequer
de Latour, their subjects being derived
partly from England and Paris and partly from the
artist’s native homeland, the country of the Rhine.
In the midst of the crowd of oil-paintings with which
the Kunstverein is from time to time inundated
these mature and delightful drawings of Bequer’s
left a very agreeable impression. They were all of

PLAQUETTE, BY RUDOLF BOSSELT

PLAQUETTE: “WINTER SPORT”

BY FRITZ CHRIST, MUNICH