Studio: international art (49.1910)

Studio-Talk

style, a water - colour by
Fernand Khnopff reminded
us that this artist remains
ever faithful to his delicate
and essentially poetic
visions. Mr. Walter Gay
has in very few years
attained quite extraordin-
ary freedom in the medium
of water-colour. His three
interiors were perfect, in
composition and colour-
ing, while a landscape Le
Pont showed us that also
in plein - air subjects the
artist retains his own per-
sonality. H. F.

“ owls ”

I have often had occasion to praise in the pages
of The Studio, is M. Alexandre Marcette. He
must be ranked as one of the finest of Belgian
sea-painters, and his contributions this year seemed
to mark new progress, a wider vision, and a deeper
searching for effect. _

M. Lucien Simon remains, as ever, a brilliant
water-colourist—his ability is unequalled, and his
Batteuse was a charming specimen of those fine
pictures of open-air life in which Simon sings in
praise of nature and of toil. Of quite another

BY RAYMOND BIGOT

B

ERLIN.—Flor-
ence Jessie Hosel
holds a unique
position in our
present international domain of art-embroidery.
The Berlin Royal Museum of Arts and Crafts
recently signalised this fact by dedicating to her
the entire suite of rooms reserved for extra exhi.
bitions. This original artist has attracted attention
on several occasions, but never had we been in
a position to study her to such full extent. We
could expect from her quite personal designs
and colour effects, decorative charm, and the
speciality of poetical landscape pictures, but her
development in the sphere of the dramatic and
the imaginative was the great surprise this time.

•“spring in the grunewald”

EMBROIDERED BY FLORENCE JESSIE HOSEL

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