Studio: international art (62.1914)

Studio- Talk

of passion and originality, and his thirty-two works Mr. Gerald Moira, Mr. G. F. Kelly, and among

exhibited here are a revelation of his mastery, the water-colour and tempera exhibits Clara and

Nor less so in the next room are the paintings of Hilda Montalba, Mr. Russell Flint, and Mr.

M. Paul Albert Besnard. Here we have a real Charles Sims. Sir Alfred East's painting here

presentment of India, with her marvellous pictorial brings back to us the keen interest which this fine

possibilities. All the warmth and colour of the artist took in these exhibitions of Venice, as well as

East come before us most vividly presented in those of the Water-colour Society of Milan,

an art which we approach even more intimately -

in the seven frames filled with little pen-and-ink In the British Pavilion, though there are two
studies, coloured sometimes with wash. individual rooms, the effect of the whole is fresh,
- varied, interesting. In that of Germany, on the

The British Pavilion shows a marked improve- other hand, under the same conditions, the whole

ment on that of two years back. The impression effect seems monotonous, though here, too, some

from the first is satisfactory : in the entrance-room admirable paintings are to be seen, such as the

a large canvas by Mr. Lavery {The Amazon) meets brilliant Leda of Hugo Vogel in the first room, a

the eye at once, with on the one side Mr. Charles masterpiece of plein-air treatment of the figure, the

Sims's Island Festival, with its delicious flesh tints paintings of Kolbe, Ackermann, Max Schlichting,

of the nudes, Mr. Talmage's Self-portrait, and Mr. and the portraits of Harry Schultz and Schuster-

(Veil Rea's charming Secret of the Stream ; on the Woldan, while among the sculpture a bronze figure

other, Mr. J. J. Shannon's portrait of his daughter, of a little girl by Lewin Funcke is quite charming.

Kitty. Elsewhere we find Mr. Anning Bell, Mrs. -

I^aura Knight {Dawn and, among the water-colours, The Russian Pavilion has come into being this

'Flic Gipsv-girl Bathing), Mr. Harrington Mann, year, having been opened by the Grand Duchess

FETE AT TEUI.ADA (SARDINIA)"' (Venice International Art Exhibition) BY GIUSEPPE BIASI

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