Studio: international art (59.1913)

Studio-Talk

THE LATE GASTON LA TOUCHE IN HIS STUDIO
( Photo, //. Manuel)

drawings and four paintings in oil by Miss E. Hilda
Rix, a native of Melbourne, Australia, were de-
cidedly interesting. In the chalk medium Miss Rix
made some thirty-two drawings amongst the moving
crowds in Morocco, sketching the various types in
the market-places despite the religious objection of
the Moors to being drawn. The accompanying
reproduction of her Trois Amis, though slightly
reduced in size, gives one an excellent idea of the
original, and from the same series the French
Government purchased her Grand March/, Tanger.
Her Marchande de Ugumes is charmingly charac-
teristic of life in the old-world town of Staples,
while the reproduction of the Retour de la chasse
shows that her ability with the brush is by no
means inconsiderable. E. A. T.

French art has suffered a great loss by the death
of Gaston La Touche, who passed away while
at the full tide of his talent, and at a moment when
his work was becoming every day more and more
appreciated, and when numerous commissions were
flowing in to his studio at Saint-Cloud, in the
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old house where he was born in 1854 and lived all
his life. An admirable water-colour painter, he
restored this metier to popularity, and founded the
Societe Internationale de la Peinture a l’Eau. As a
painter in oils he excelled in turn in the regions of
decorative art, religious painting, portraiture, land-
scape, and genre. In all these branches his work
was original and seductive, and throughout he was
unquestionably a master. For some months he
held the position of president of the section of
painting at the Societe Nationale. While remain-
ing resolutely modern in his outlook, he founded
the Societe des Amis de Saint-Cloud to protect
from vandalism all the natural and artistic beauties
of the district. Much beloved by all his confreres,
La Touche was a man of noble character and a
great artist. H. F.

MUNICH.—At the International Exhi-
bition of Fine Art here, which must be
accounted in every respect a very im-
portant manifestation, Belgian art has
achieved a remarkable success. Together with the

“ PRINCESSE MARIE-JOsH ” BY VICTOR ROUSSEAU