DOI Heft:
No. 166 (May 1915)
DOI Artikel:Wood, T. Martin: The Edmund Davis collection, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0250
The Edmund Davis Collection—II
“L’lLLUSION BRIS^e” BY AUGUSTE RODIN
for mere effect, and yet every effect that nature
would suggest was studied. Impressionism is art of
the most animated kind, its soul is movement; in
impressionism the effect is always passing. And
that is why what it recorded seemed worth record-
ing ; what it arrested might never occur again, or
the artist mind might not be there, sensitive as an
aeolian string, to receive the beauty that was passing.
Boudin was bom at Honfleur in 1824. His
father was a pilot, and he began life as a cabin-boy.
Few painters have shown a finer sense of atmosphere.
When we ask ourselves by what means other than
that of impressionism he could have realised on
canvas that of which he had the secret we are at a
loss what to reply. Every school of painting pre-
serves some form of truth which that school only
preserves.
The Queen Henrietta Maria by Van Dyck, the
reproduction of which was held over from the first
article on the collection, came from the collection
of Lord Lansdowne. It is considered by several
authorities as the best version of an often repeated
portrait. The Queen’s figure in this pose also
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appears with that of Charles in the group of
Charles I receiving a myrtle W7-eath from Henrietta
Maria.
With the illustrations to the present article are
also included three works by Rodin which belong to
the collection—LIEternel Printemps or L'Amoitt
et Psyche; Les Voix ; and PIllusion BrisLe ; but we
propose to deal textually with the sculpture and
the drawings of the collection in a separate article.
The encouragement that Mr. Davis has given to
artists must not be estimated only by the pictures
in his house. All that is most representative of
the vitality of painting in England at this moment
will be represented in France, in the Musee du
Luxembourg, by a gift from this collector. This
present to the French Government, to which Mr.
Davis constantly adds and which now amounts to no
fewer than thirty pictures, will be hung in a special
room at the Luxembourg. It was intended to open
a temporary exhibition there last December, pend-
ing the preparation of the room, but owing to the
unfortunate conditions that now prevail on the
Continent this project has been postponed.
“L’lLLUSION BRIS^e” BY AUGUSTE RODIN
for mere effect, and yet every effect that nature
would suggest was studied. Impressionism is art of
the most animated kind, its soul is movement; in
impressionism the effect is always passing. And
that is why what it recorded seemed worth record-
ing ; what it arrested might never occur again, or
the artist mind might not be there, sensitive as an
aeolian string, to receive the beauty that was passing.
Boudin was bom at Honfleur in 1824. His
father was a pilot, and he began life as a cabin-boy.
Few painters have shown a finer sense of atmosphere.
When we ask ourselves by what means other than
that of impressionism he could have realised on
canvas that of which he had the secret we are at a
loss what to reply. Every school of painting pre-
serves some form of truth which that school only
preserves.
The Queen Henrietta Maria by Van Dyck, the
reproduction of which was held over from the first
article on the collection, came from the collection
of Lord Lansdowne. It is considered by several
authorities as the best version of an often repeated
portrait. The Queen’s figure in this pose also
244
appears with that of Charles in the group of
Charles I receiving a myrtle W7-eath from Henrietta
Maria.
With the illustrations to the present article are
also included three works by Rodin which belong to
the collection—LIEternel Printemps or L'Amoitt
et Psyche; Les Voix ; and PIllusion BrisLe ; but we
propose to deal textually with the sculpture and
the drawings of the collection in a separate article.
The encouragement that Mr. Davis has given to
artists must not be estimated only by the pictures
in his house. All that is most representative of
the vitality of painting in England at this moment
will be represented in France, in the Musee du
Luxembourg, by a gift from this collector. This
present to the French Government, to which Mr.
Davis constantly adds and which now amounts to no
fewer than thirty pictures, will be hung in a special
room at the Luxembourg. It was intended to open
a temporary exhibition there last December, pend-
ing the preparation of the room, but owing to the
unfortunate conditions that now prevail on the
Continent this project has been postponed.