Studio: international art (58.1913)

Studio- Talk

" SOLEIL DE PRINTEMPs" FROM AN OIL PAINTING BY ABRAHAM MANIEVITCH

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ARIS. — Amongst the work of the La Place de la Concorde, are exceptionally fine in
younger American Painters in Paris colour,
who within the last few months have

made remarkable progress, the Windsor The recent exhibition of the collective works ot

Castle by George Oberteuffer, reproduced on p. 322, Abraham Manievitch brought together under the

is an excellent example. It is one of his many organisation of Monsieur Jacques Bramson in the

canvases executed in England last year despite the Durand-Ruel galleries was markedly notable for its

weather, which was unfavourable to open air striking individuality. With the exception of two

painters. There is an old Scotch saying that—" It canvases exhibited in the Societe Nationale's Salon

is an ill wind that blows nobody good." In the last year, this was the artist's first appearance in

case of Mr. Oberteuffer the wet days made him Paris. On entering the exhibition the first impression

rely more on his memory than he had in any of was one of scintillating colour, light, and detail,

his previous work, with the result that all his latest the detail vanishing on closer inspection into an

attainments exhibit a greater dignity, quality of intricate maze of line revealing the artist's joy

colour and personality; some of his most recent, in portraying interlacing branches, veiling villages

including a large and really masterly achievement in early spring sunlight and snow. Here was the

in the canvas of Notre Dame and a smaller one, work of an artist who sacrifices nothing in his art to

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