Studio: international art (53.1911)

Studio- Talk

manca all appeal to him.
In the objects and places
that lie nearest he finds
beauty; for instance, in his
picture The Wounded
Espada he has used one
of the passages of the old;
Barcelona Bull-ring as his
background, but although
ne lives in Barcelona he is
not Catalan, but Castilian
of Castille. I. D. W.

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"Phillip's square, Montreal" by maurice cuj.lkn, r.c.a.

ONTREAL.—
The last Spring
Exhibition ot
the Canadian
Art Association was re-
markably successful in
point of attendance and
number of sales; but,
speaking generally, the
pictures shown, with a

country in Europe, except England,
where he has never exhibited. His
work is also well known in South
America and many of his pictures
have been purchased there. He
studied at the School of Fine Arts in
Madrid, and later under Bonnat in
Paris, but although his art training
was mostly French his work is, and
has always been, entirely Spanish;
indeed his work has been said by
more than one critic to lay open the
very heart of Spain. His correctness
of drawing, purity of colour and the
distinction of his work have gained
for him many gold medals and
honours of a more substantial order.
Amongst the galleries which have pur-
chased his pictures are the Euxem-
bourg and Gallery of Modern Art in
Madrid. For many years his works
have hung on the line at the Salon
des Artistes Francais in Paris. His
subjects are many and varied. As a
portrait painter he has considerable
renown but the subjects that please
him best are those which are essen-
tially Spanish. The dark-skinned
gitanas, the mountain police in their
unique and picturesque uniforms, the
curiously dressed peasants ef Sala- " woman milking" by horatio walker

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