Studio: international art (61.1914)

Studio-Talk

" LE TROUBADOUR." FROM AN ORIGINAL ETCHING
BY WILLIAM A. LEVY

merit. Amongst his best etchings it is in those
dealing with portraiture that his ability is most
marked, though many of his landscapes and archi-
tectural subjects are not less successful, most notable
being those executed on the banks of the Seine.
As a painter, one feels it is also in his portraiture
that his personality and strength are most evident
and convincing. Returning to America late last
autumn, he held an exhibition of his collective
work in the Academy rooms of the Fine Art
Building, New York, which met with considerable
appreciation and promise of an honoured future.

E. A. T.

M. Druet has been showing recently in his
galleries in the Rue Royale a very interesting exhibi-
tion of pictures by Dezire, a young artist who
exhibits work at the Salon d'Automne in particular,
and whose art shows him to be a highly gifted
painter. One appreciates above all the rich palette
of this artist, who is at the same time very modern
in temperament and yet of artistic affinity with the
classic masters. Also M. Dezire excels in the
composition of his pictures, a quality becoming
more rare every day among contemporary artists,

but one which is very pronouncedly in evidence in
the landscape we reproduce overleaf.

Concurrently with these paintings by Dezire, M.
Druet had on view some admirable stone-ware by
Lenoble, powerful in execution and simple and
harmonious in its decoration. M. Lenoble is
becoming more and more the compeer of the great
masters of the potter's art.

Two Belgian painters of very delightful talent,
pupils of Fernand Khnopff, have just held a very
remarkable exhibition here in Paris at the galleries
of M. Marcel Bernheim. M. and Mme. Tony
Hermant's work appeals by its varied and charm-
ing qualities ; it is most rare to find such an artistic
couple. M. Hermant showed a remarkable series
of interiors, equally valuable as documents and
as excellent pieces of colour. The artist depicts
with the same happy effect interiors of the Hotel
de Ville at Brussels, of which pictures certain
belong to the corporation of that city, or fleeting
aspects ot the Brussels and Ghent Exhibitions.
M. Tony Hermant also specialises in delicate and
charming portraits in coloured chalk finished with
light touches of water-colour; his heads of Mile.
Cleo de Merode, of Mile. Bovy of the Comedie
Francaise and Mme. Chariotte Lyses are delicious
productions which give M. Hermant an assured
position as artist. Mme. Hermant is gifted with a
quite exceptional feeling for the decorative. Her
figures and still-life pieces show that in her case the
poetic and the artistic sense are closely wedded.

BLUE STONE-WARE VASE BY LENOBLE

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