DOI Heft:
No. 215 (February, 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0082
Studio-Talk
The exhibition was quite a success on the whole, Exhibition, presided over by Rodin. The great
and the Society should be encouraged to persevere master has, besides, shown his esteem for her
with the scheme, which is valuable as showing the talent by inviting her to figure at that very select
good craft work that is being done in the city and display held annually, under his presidency, at the
district. A. Mc.K. Galeries Georges Petit. Mile. Poupelet also
exhibits at the "Libre Esthetique," in Brussels,
PARIS.—Mile. Jane Poupelet, an example where last year she sent a group of small animal
of whose work is reproduced on p. 59, is figures, interpreted in a decorative spirit. Her
one of the three lady sculptors who art reveals a sensitive eye for the refinements of
have been awarded a " bourse de form, together with a sure regard for general
voyage," or travelling scholarship, by the French harmony. M. H.
Government. Another official honour accorded to .
her was a bronze medal at the Paris Exhibition of ■ If, as Diderot has it, "le sentiment du Beau
1900. Her work, which is beginning to be well n'est que le resultat d'une longue suite d'observa-
known in France—for it figures regularly at the tions," the faculty of observation is assuredly the
Salon de la Societe Nationale and at the Salon attribute of a privileged few, an elite both of
d'Automne—has already crossed the Channel, the thought and of art who, in regarding the face of
artist having taken part in th e " Fair Women " Nature, are able to perceive her grandeur and her
poetry, and to appreciate the truth
and beauty which emanate from her.
M. Albert Lynch is truly one of
this elite, for he cultivates this sense
of beauty, and his work, the fruit of
his journeys into a domain now be-
come familiar to him, stands as a
striking testimony of his artistic con-
victions. Born in Peru, which from
the point of view of art is indeed a new
world, he is of Irish origin on his
father's side, and his mother, originally
of French extraction, is the daughter
and granddaughter of artists. Lynch
himself studied in Paris, and is the
pupil of M. Gabriel Ferrier. We are
forced to the conclusion that it is the
traditions of the Old World combined
with the vitality of the New which have
formed his character and developed
his aspirations. He is emphatically a
true artist. He has given proof of this
time after time at the Salon, where he-
is hors contours, and where his Printemps
gained for him a medal in the first class,
and also by the execution of portraits
which are veritable masterpieces, as for
instance that of Mrs. Crocker here re-
produced, of Miss Gould, now Mrs.
Drexel, and many others. Absolutely
wrapped up in his art and ever striving
for purity of form and style, Lynch
gives to his pictures and portraits a rare
elegance, and invests his decorative
compositions with an indefinable
PORTRAIT OF MRS. J. CROCKER BY ALBERT LYNCH attractiveness. L. H.
60
The exhibition was quite a success on the whole, Exhibition, presided over by Rodin. The great
and the Society should be encouraged to persevere master has, besides, shown his esteem for her
with the scheme, which is valuable as showing the talent by inviting her to figure at that very select
good craft work that is being done in the city and display held annually, under his presidency, at the
district. A. Mc.K. Galeries Georges Petit. Mile. Poupelet also
exhibits at the "Libre Esthetique," in Brussels,
PARIS.—Mile. Jane Poupelet, an example where last year she sent a group of small animal
of whose work is reproduced on p. 59, is figures, interpreted in a decorative spirit. Her
one of the three lady sculptors who art reveals a sensitive eye for the refinements of
have been awarded a " bourse de form, together with a sure regard for general
voyage," or travelling scholarship, by the French harmony. M. H.
Government. Another official honour accorded to .
her was a bronze medal at the Paris Exhibition of ■ If, as Diderot has it, "le sentiment du Beau
1900. Her work, which is beginning to be well n'est que le resultat d'une longue suite d'observa-
known in France—for it figures regularly at the tions," the faculty of observation is assuredly the
Salon de la Societe Nationale and at the Salon attribute of a privileged few, an elite both of
d'Automne—has already crossed the Channel, the thought and of art who, in regarding the face of
artist having taken part in th e " Fair Women " Nature, are able to perceive her grandeur and her
poetry, and to appreciate the truth
and beauty which emanate from her.
M. Albert Lynch is truly one of
this elite, for he cultivates this sense
of beauty, and his work, the fruit of
his journeys into a domain now be-
come familiar to him, stands as a
striking testimony of his artistic con-
victions. Born in Peru, which from
the point of view of art is indeed a new
world, he is of Irish origin on his
father's side, and his mother, originally
of French extraction, is the daughter
and granddaughter of artists. Lynch
himself studied in Paris, and is the
pupil of M. Gabriel Ferrier. We are
forced to the conclusion that it is the
traditions of the Old World combined
with the vitality of the New which have
formed his character and developed
his aspirations. He is emphatically a
true artist. He has given proof of this
time after time at the Salon, where he-
is hors contours, and where his Printemps
gained for him a medal in the first class,
and also by the execution of portraits
which are veritable masterpieces, as for
instance that of Mrs. Crocker here re-
produced, of Miss Gould, now Mrs.
Drexel, and many others. Absolutely
wrapped up in his art and ever striving
for purity of form and style, Lynch
gives to his pictures and portraits a rare
elegance, and invests his decorative
compositions with an indefinable
PORTRAIT OF MRS. J. CROCKER BY ALBERT LYNCH attractiveness. L. H.
60