Studio: international art (65.1915)

Studio-Talk

“the first automobile in the village”

(See Copenhagen Studio- Talk, p. 61)

Oldridge which is now in the Tretiakoff Gallery in
Moscow, and the occasion has been reconstituted
by L. Pasternak in the drawing now reproduced.

P. E.

PARIS.—Amongst the few exhibitions that
have been held in Paris recently, one
which was designated the “ Grande
Tombola des Artistes et des Ecrivains
Franpais,” and was held in the galleries of Messrs.
Georges Petit, aroused the most marked interest.
The exhibition was organised with the object of
raising a fund for the relief of members of the
profession who have had their means of livelihood
seriously curtailed as a consequence of the present
crisis—and, alas ! they are many in number. That
the appeal made on their behalf was not in vain
was fully attested by the large collection of works
brought together in Messrs. Petit’s galleries. The
main object of the exhibition was to raise the sum
of 100,000 francs by the sale of tickets at the
modest price of two francs each, the holders being
entitled to the chance of having his or her portrait
painted by a prominent artist, or acquiring one or
other of the works included in the exhibition.
Among the most notable of the prizes falling to the
lot of the fortunate were Henri Le Sidaner’s Le
Pavilion, so lei l couchant, Rene Menard’s Le Pin
Parasol, Henri Martin’s Puy-Teveque, F. C.
Frieseke’s Travailleuse, H. Morisset’s La Plage,
H. Thorndike’s Pay sage, some charming drawings
by Maxime De Thomas, a snow landscape by
Claude Monet, and a characteristic example of
the work of M. Vuillard. M. de Fa Gandara was
among the portrait-painters from whom the drawers
of lucky numbers in this “ Grande Tombola ” were
entitled to ask for sittings.

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Then there was an exhi-
bition of the contemporary
Belgian School, which
occupied two small rooms
adjoining the Sculpture
Gallery in the Musee du
Fuxembourg, while another
notable display in the same
building was that of the
etchings and lithographs
presented by Mr. Frank
Brangwyn to the Musee
“ en hommage d’admiration
pour la France et pour ses
splendides soldats.” This
display, which was arranged
in the room opposite the
entrance hall of the Musee, consisted of eighty of
the artist’s finest prints, and with them were in-
cluded some examples of his work in oils and water-
colour purchased from the Salons of 1895 and
1905, together with a characteristic example of his
brilliant colour and technique, Les Bottcaniers, lent
for the purpose of this exhibition by M. Charles
Pacquemont. E. A. T.

“ENGLISH YOU KNOW ” BY S. BOBERG

(See Copenhagen Studio- Talk, p. 61)