DOI Heft:
No. 227 (February 1912)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0071
Studio-Talk
“ MOONLIGHT, INDIA”
BY HUGO V. PEDERSEN
fountains of Fontainebleau, for the statues of
Versailles, and romantic avenues, but his method is
forcibly impressionistic and his appeal above all to
the special public who can appreciate virtuosity in
regard to “ execution,” and the solution of prob-
lems in the matter of tone relations.
A painter who has excelled with themes from
the East is Mr. Hugo V. Pedersen, a Danish artist
and a great traveller, whose work covers a wide
range in figure and interior as well as landscape
subjects. He has been happy in the interpretation
°f Eastern effects, such as the Moonlight, Fidia,
which we are reproducing, and has made many
Portraits of the foremost Indian princes. Mr.
Pedersen was born in 1870.
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters has
been holding its twenty-second exhibition at the
Grafton Galleries. Mr. W. Strang has seldom
manipulated his colour to more interesting effect
than in his Girl with a Flower. Mons. A. Besnard
was represented by a remarkable portrait of Mis
Excellency M. Barrere, French Ambassador to the
Court of Italy. Mr. Harold Speed’s Profile Portrait
is to be counted among his most successful works,
and Mr. J. J- Shannon’s Mrs. Shannon was curiously
interesting. Mr. John Lavery’s Miss Dundas,
Miss Halhed’s Rose and Gold, Mr. Nicholson’s
Mrs. H. L. Hopkitison, were notable pictures. Mr.
Orpen was represented by his portrait of F. FI.
Rawlings, Esq., Loiver Master of Eton, and Mr.
S. Melton Fisher by The Hon. Mrs. Ferguson of
Pitfour. Mr. W. Graham Robertson has never
been happier than in Miss Mabel Beardsley, Miss
I. E. Thomas, and Mrs. Alfred Sutro. Bualia
Herodsfoot, by Mr. Eric H. Kennington, was a
painting particularly deserving of praise. Among
works especially demanding inclusion in an un-
avoidably brief reference to this exhibition is the
fascinating bronzed plaster bust of Airs. Norris-
Tait, by Mr. F. Derwent Wood, A.R.A.
Mr. S. Baghot de la Bere’s work, recently shown
at the Fine Art Society’s Gallery, suggests a painter
whose facility runs away with him. He appears
not to have been to school under influences worthy
of his remarkable talent, and one has to regret
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“ MOONLIGHT, INDIA”
BY HUGO V. PEDERSEN
fountains of Fontainebleau, for the statues of
Versailles, and romantic avenues, but his method is
forcibly impressionistic and his appeal above all to
the special public who can appreciate virtuosity in
regard to “ execution,” and the solution of prob-
lems in the matter of tone relations.
A painter who has excelled with themes from
the East is Mr. Hugo V. Pedersen, a Danish artist
and a great traveller, whose work covers a wide
range in figure and interior as well as landscape
subjects. He has been happy in the interpretation
°f Eastern effects, such as the Moonlight, Fidia,
which we are reproducing, and has made many
Portraits of the foremost Indian princes. Mr.
Pedersen was born in 1870.
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters has
been holding its twenty-second exhibition at the
Grafton Galleries. Mr. W. Strang has seldom
manipulated his colour to more interesting effect
than in his Girl with a Flower. Mons. A. Besnard
was represented by a remarkable portrait of Mis
Excellency M. Barrere, French Ambassador to the
Court of Italy. Mr. Harold Speed’s Profile Portrait
is to be counted among his most successful works,
and Mr. J. J- Shannon’s Mrs. Shannon was curiously
interesting. Mr. John Lavery’s Miss Dundas,
Miss Halhed’s Rose and Gold, Mr. Nicholson’s
Mrs. H. L. Hopkitison, were notable pictures. Mr.
Orpen was represented by his portrait of F. FI.
Rawlings, Esq., Loiver Master of Eton, and Mr.
S. Melton Fisher by The Hon. Mrs. Ferguson of
Pitfour. Mr. W. Graham Robertson has never
been happier than in Miss Mabel Beardsley, Miss
I. E. Thomas, and Mrs. Alfred Sutro. Bualia
Herodsfoot, by Mr. Eric H. Kennington, was a
painting particularly deserving of praise. Among
works especially demanding inclusion in an un-
avoidably brief reference to this exhibition is the
fascinating bronzed plaster bust of Airs. Norris-
Tait, by Mr. F. Derwent Wood, A.R.A.
Mr. S. Baghot de la Bere’s work, recently shown
at the Fine Art Society’s Gallery, suggests a painter
whose facility runs away with him. He appears
not to have been to school under influences worthy
of his remarkable talent, and one has to regret
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