DOI issue:
No. 217 (April, 1911)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0252
Studio- Talk
L'EMBACLE DE LA SEINE (ENTRE ASNIERES ET COURBEVOIe) " BY ALEXANDRE NOZAL
landscapes, in one of which, On the Berkshire ings are among the best works in the Musee
Downs, he was particularly successful in ren- Nationale du Luxembourg, as also in the Petit
dering the oppressive brilliance of a curious Palais des Beaux Arts of Paris, and are to be
effect of sunlight. One of the best exhibits found in the public galleries at Havre, Amiens,
in the water-colour section was Mr. James R. i Melbourne (Australia), Bourgos, Carcassonne,
Cooper's Perugia, a picture, modest in size, but Montpellier, Digne, Annecy, Saint Quentin,
handled in a large and capable manner. There Nantes and Harfleur.
was much good work shown by the older members
of the Academy and two very promising pictures This collective exhibition was particularly
by a young student, Mr. William Cartledge. striking, for here one saw the aims and ideal
s
Among the sculpture exhibits the usual sound of the artist realised in many a varied aspect of
craftsmanship of Messrs. John Cassidy, Mew- his art—his reveries near the lakes of Saint-
burn Crook and Mrs. Gertrude Wright was Cucufa, studies made here at all hours of the
evident. E. M. day ancj a]j seasons of the year, wonderful im-
pressions caught in high altitudes, impressions
PARIS.—An interesting exhibition held of Normandy, near the banks of the Seine or
recently in the Champs Elysees at the the Eure, in Dauphine, or of the Pyrenees, of
International Art Gallery, 1 rue de Auvergne, of Corsica, or above all, on the Cote
Berri, was that in which one saw d'Azur, a favourite spot with Nozal. In each
about a hundred paintings and pastels by that of these impressions so finely recorded by the
able landscape painter, so dexterous in the artist all is depicted with an accent of sincerity
composition of harmonious and beautiful pic- that is very striking. Each work has its own
tures, Alexandre Nozal. For a long time now particular attractiveness, its own particular
shrewd connoisseurs have taken deep interest luminosity, its own vibrant atmosphere,
in Nozal's work, and their attention has been
rightly bestowed, for this artist has risen step To sum up briefly, by the happy choice of
by step in a career entirely devoted to landscape his subject, by the consummate art with which
painting, an art which he has thoroughly he depicts Nature in her most wonderful
mastered. Since 1883 he has been hors con- manifestations, and depicts often with much
cours at the Salon, and he was made Chevalier eloquence, by his incontestable knowledge of
of the Legion of Honour in 1895. His paint- the harmonies of sky, and earth, and water,
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L'EMBACLE DE LA SEINE (ENTRE ASNIERES ET COURBEVOIe) " BY ALEXANDRE NOZAL
landscapes, in one of which, On the Berkshire ings are among the best works in the Musee
Downs, he was particularly successful in ren- Nationale du Luxembourg, as also in the Petit
dering the oppressive brilliance of a curious Palais des Beaux Arts of Paris, and are to be
effect of sunlight. One of the best exhibits found in the public galleries at Havre, Amiens,
in the water-colour section was Mr. James R. i Melbourne (Australia), Bourgos, Carcassonne,
Cooper's Perugia, a picture, modest in size, but Montpellier, Digne, Annecy, Saint Quentin,
handled in a large and capable manner. There Nantes and Harfleur.
was much good work shown by the older members
of the Academy and two very promising pictures This collective exhibition was particularly
by a young student, Mr. William Cartledge. striking, for here one saw the aims and ideal
s
Among the sculpture exhibits the usual sound of the artist realised in many a varied aspect of
craftsmanship of Messrs. John Cassidy, Mew- his art—his reveries near the lakes of Saint-
burn Crook and Mrs. Gertrude Wright was Cucufa, studies made here at all hours of the
evident. E. M. day ancj a]j seasons of the year, wonderful im-
pressions caught in high altitudes, impressions
PARIS.—An interesting exhibition held of Normandy, near the banks of the Seine or
recently in the Champs Elysees at the the Eure, in Dauphine, or of the Pyrenees, of
International Art Gallery, 1 rue de Auvergne, of Corsica, or above all, on the Cote
Berri, was that in which one saw d'Azur, a favourite spot with Nozal. In each
about a hundred paintings and pastels by that of these impressions so finely recorded by the
able landscape painter, so dexterous in the artist all is depicted with an accent of sincerity
composition of harmonious and beautiful pic- that is very striking. Each work has its own
tures, Alexandre Nozal. For a long time now particular attractiveness, its own particular
shrewd connoisseurs have taken deep interest luminosity, its own vibrant atmosphere,
in Nozal's work, and their attention has been
rightly bestowed, for this artist has risen step To sum up briefly, by the happy choice of
by step in a career entirely devoted to landscape his subject, by the consummate art with which
painting, an art which he has thoroughly he depicts Nature in her most wonderful
mastered. Since 1883 he has been hors con- manifestations, and depicts often with much
cours at the Salon, and he was made Chevalier eloquence, by his incontestable knowledge of
of the Legion of Honour in 1895. His paint- the harmonies of sky, and earth, and water,
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