DOI issue:
Nr. 213 (December 1910)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20971#0257
Studio-Talk
“i.a danse” {Bv permission of M. Druet) by MAURICE DENIS
Prudhon. Nothing could be more harmonious
than his eight panels inspired by the evenings of
the Decameron of Boccaccio, and intended for
the decoration of an octagonal cupola in the hbtel
of M. Charles Stem. The rather stiff Florentine
forms have furnished the artist with most delightful
motifs for his work. The panel entitled Les Cypres
is a wonderful decorative achievement, while in
that called Les Pins all the purity of line of Tuscan
landscape may be seen in these large umbrella-
like pines, the sombreness of whose colouring is
relieved by the flowers in the foreground. Among
the panels containing figures I was immensely
pleased with La Cantate. The two groups, to
“la cantate
236
[By Permission of M. Druet)
BY MAURICE DENIS
“i.a danse” {Bv permission of M. Druet) by MAURICE DENIS
Prudhon. Nothing could be more harmonious
than his eight panels inspired by the evenings of
the Decameron of Boccaccio, and intended for
the decoration of an octagonal cupola in the hbtel
of M. Charles Stem. The rather stiff Florentine
forms have furnished the artist with most delightful
motifs for his work. The panel entitled Les Cypres
is a wonderful decorative achievement, while in
that called Les Pins all the purity of line of Tuscan
landscape may be seen in these large umbrella-
like pines, the sombreness of whose colouring is
relieved by the flowers in the foreground. Among
the panels containing figures I was immensely
pleased with La Cantate. The two groups, to
“la cantate
236
[By Permission of M. Druet)
BY MAURICE DENIS