Studio: international art (48.1910)

Studio-Talk

"LA VAGUE" (COLOURED ETCHING) BY ARSENE CHABANIAN

Eugene Delatre (one of the initiators of the the author of the " Diaboliques," the big genial
movement) a beautiful Soleil couchant. features and the rather contemptuous expression of
-- this noble recluse.

One of the most important exhibits was the large
triptych Au Pays de la Mer, by Ch. Cottet, which The Societe de la Gravure en Noir, founded by
he has engraved in collaboration with M. Ch. M. Edouard Andre, has attained quite remarkable
Coppier. No one can have forgotten this moving success with the Parisian public. This Inter-
work, which is now in the Luxembourg, and is one national Association has had several satisfactory
of the most celebrated of the painter's works, exhibitions abroad, and has recently held its second
The President of the Society, M. Raffaelli, showed exhibition in Paris in the Allard Galleries. Among
among other things five plates in colours to the two hundred and thirty seven works exhibited
illustrate Huysmans' " Sceurs Valard." M. Adrien I noticed few that were entirely devoid of interest,
Etienne has an elegant and refined conception and a certain number were really first class. One
of the modern woman. Finally the " gypsographs " could not but be pleased with the variety of the
of M. Pierre Roche struck me by their originality, works shown. Some were done in the classical
which indeed is always evidenced in his work. manner, such as the contributions of Brunet-
- Debaines, or the very important Vue de Mont

On November 28th last the centenary was cele- Saint Michel, by M. J. M. Cazin, or again the

brated near Valognes, in Lower Normandy, of one beautiful etching of a Roman theatre by M. Dalle-

of the greatest French writers of the century, magne and the delicate visions of M. J. J. Gabriel;

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who for many years bore but more numerous were plates in which the

the appellation of "Conn£table de Lettres." The artists aimed at a bolder treatment and at getting

occasion was marked by the unveiling, before a very stronger and broader effects. I was much taken

distinguished gathering, of a bronze bust by Rodin with the frontispiece for the " Cathedrale," by

_one of the master's finest pieces. He has Huysmans, etched by Ch. Jouas, whose two views

powerfully depicted the noble and proud figure of of Paris, seen from the top of Notre Dame, also

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