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attracted a large share of attention, and in fact his literature, and art of the region known as the
portrait of the painter Nesteroff revealed shrewd Ukraine. It is a great triumph for a young
psychological insight besides being admirably sculptor like Sciortino, who is only a little over
effective from a technical point of view. And the thirty, to come out victorious in such an important
sculptor S. Konenkoff also excelled as a portraitist contest, but it is not the first success he has won
in a series of busts, though his chief triumph was a in open competition. In 1911 he competed for
masterly female torso in wood which witnessed to the Alexander II monument of St. Petersburg,
the continuous advance of this talented artist. L. also the subject of an international competition,
Pasternak's gifts as a draughtsman were well dis- and his model was accepted; but unfortunately he
played in numerous portraits, of which the most was disqualified subsequently on the ground that
successful were a life-size group of two Moscow he had neglected to send the necessary perspective
merchants and a sketch portrait of the Belgian drawing.
poet Verhaeren. Mention should also be made of -
the original studies of
handled interiors of A. S
etchings by V. Masiutin.
the original studies of M. Pyrin, the tenderly Prof. Sciortino was born in Malta in 1881, and
handled interiors of A. Sredin and some interesting on the score of nationality, therefore, may be con-
The painting by N.
Bogdanoff-Bielsky, repro-
duced on p. 329, figured
in this year's exhibition of
the Society known as the
ness which pervades the
composition it is un-
doubtedly worthy of atten- ^S^Uk-ia.. ^^^^^;-»
city of Russia and the chief
centre of the social life, "the little mermaid" (See next iage) by edvard eriksen
533
attracted a large share of attention, and in fact his literature, and art of the region known as the
portrait of the painter Nesteroff revealed shrewd Ukraine. It is a great triumph for a young
psychological insight besides being admirably sculptor like Sciortino, who is only a little over
effective from a technical point of view. And the thirty, to come out victorious in such an important
sculptor S. Konenkoff also excelled as a portraitist contest, but it is not the first success he has won
in a series of busts, though his chief triumph was a in open competition. In 1911 he competed for
masterly female torso in wood which witnessed to the Alexander II monument of St. Petersburg,
the continuous advance of this talented artist. L. also the subject of an international competition,
Pasternak's gifts as a draughtsman were well dis- and his model was accepted; but unfortunately he
played in numerous portraits, of which the most was disqualified subsequently on the ground that
successful were a life-size group of two Moscow he had neglected to send the necessary perspective
merchants and a sketch portrait of the Belgian drawing.
poet Verhaeren. Mention should also be made of -
the original studies of
handled interiors of A. S
etchings by V. Masiutin.
the original studies of M. Pyrin, the tenderly Prof. Sciortino was born in Malta in 1881, and
handled interiors of A. Sredin and some interesting on the score of nationality, therefore, may be con-
The painting by N.
Bogdanoff-Bielsky, repro-
duced on p. 329, figured
in this year's exhibition of
the Society known as the
ness which pervades the
composition it is un-
doubtedly worthy of atten- ^S^Uk-ia.. ^^^^^;-»
city of Russia and the chief
centre of the social life, "the little mermaid" (See next iage) by edvard eriksen
533