Studio: international art (60.1914)

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those tricks of tempera and gouache that are coming
so largely into use among painters in Italy.

Admitting this point of view—absolutely sound
in my own opinion—one must also admit that an
element of variety and attraction is imparted to
the present exhibition by those brilliant studies
of the shores of Bordighera by Pompeo Mariani,
who attains the brilliancy of his effects by the
admixture with his water-colours of tempera, pastel
and, I believe, even crayon. Another attraction
this year is Auguste Sezanne, who sends from Venice
a delightful painting of the pigeons of St. Mark
(Colombi di S. Marco)-, while from Venice Zezzos
contributes two paintings of interest. Three artists
who have all been firm adherents of the society, are
well represented, Achille Beltrame, Mario Bettinelli,
and Mascarini all showing work which is progressive.
Both Riccardo and Guiseppe Galli appear here,
the latter showing greater assurance and ease in
the medium than at previous exhibitions; and
among our illustrations is a Procession by Giovanni
Greppi. Emilio Gola’s landscapes are sincere and
powerful, and Emilio Borsa with his Four Seasons,

Egidio Riva, Antonio Piatti, Ferrari, and Riccardo
Salvadore (Twilight in Sardinia) are well repre-
sented. Sig. Renzo Weiss’s five water-colours
advance the position he had already acquired as
an aquarellist of ability and promise.

Two English ladies exhibit this year: Mrs.
Price-King, who was for many years a resi-
dent of Milan, and who has sent to the Palazzo
Cova her charming Suonatrice (Violin Player);
and Mrs. Averil Burleigh, whose work is already
familiar to readers of this magazine, and whose
two water-colours there reproduced, The Mer-
chant and The Feast, have—as I hear from a
friend in Milan—delighted the public “ from their
elegance of design, and because they render
the sentiment of mediaeval life with such delicate
poetry of feeling.” S. B.

PHILADELPHIA.—The Eleventh Annual
Exhibition of Water Colours, Black and
Whites, Pastels and Drawings in any
medium under the joint management of
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine. Arts and the

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( Associazioue degli Acquarellisti, Milan)

BY GIOVANNI GREPPI