DOI issue:
No. 281 (August 1916)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21262#0198
Studio- Talk
A fine display of sculpture was on view from "1 "V ARIS.—Draughtsman and graver, Bernard
July io to 22 at the Grafton Galleries, the exhibits I W Naudin is one of the most important
consisting of the series of ten historical statues of the younger school of contemporary
destined for the marble vestibule of the Cardiff JL French artists. On the eve of the war
City Hall, in which eight pedestals and two niches he had already come to be regarded as the next in
have been standing vacant since the Hall was succession to great leaders like Forain and Auguste
opened in 1906, and are now to be occupied through Lepere. On the outbreak of war, being not more
the munificence of Lord Rhondda. Included with than forty years of age, he was called to the colours
them was an extra group, representing the British and sent to the Front with the' men of his class.
Queen Boadicea and her two daughters, by Prof. His artistic career may be divided into three periods.
Havard Thomas, who on the nomination of Lord -
Rhondda has been acting as assessor in the carrying For some score years he was content to remain
out of the scheme in its artistic aspects. Mr. an observer of every-day life and popular types.
Thomas's collaborators were Sir W. Goscombe Coming himself from a family of workers—he is
John, R.A., to whom was entrusted the most im- the son of a watchmaker of Chateauroux—he has
portant of the ten statues, that of St. David, patron known what it is to live in modest circumstances ;
saint of Wales ; Mr. Pegram, A.R.A., Mr. Pomeroy, he has mixed with and loved the poor, and he
A.R.A., Mr. E. G. Gillick, Mr. T. J. Clapperton, has been powerfully attracted by the picturesque
Mr. L. S. Merrifield, Mr. W. W.
Wagstaff, Mr. Henry Poole, Mr.
Alfred Turner and Mr. T. N. Crook.
The formal unveiling of the statues
will, we understand, take place in
the course of a few weeks.
Among other exhibitions held in
London last month one of special
interest was that which filled the
three rooms at the Leicester Galler-
ies, where the public were enabled
to study at first hand the work of
Italy's leading caricaturists in rela-
tion to the war. Satire is a weapon
which these artists know how to
wield with unerring aim, and if in
some cases their imagination takes
somewhat extreme forms, there can
be no question of their perfect
sincerity. Besides these caricatures,
the exhibition comprised a series of
drawings by Sgr. Pogliaghi depicting
military operations among the
rugged Alpine peaks, and as showing
the tremendous difficulties which
confront the brave Alpini and
Bersaglieri in this mountain warfare
nothing could be more eloquent.
Simultaneously with this exhibition
the Fine Art Society had on view
a collection of pictures by a Serbian
caricaturist, Frano Angeli Radovani,
who, in spite of occasional excesses,
displays considerable power of
pictorial invective. "le remouleur" etching by Bernard naudin
178
A fine display of sculpture was on view from "1 "V ARIS.—Draughtsman and graver, Bernard
July io to 22 at the Grafton Galleries, the exhibits I W Naudin is one of the most important
consisting of the series of ten historical statues of the younger school of contemporary
destined for the marble vestibule of the Cardiff JL French artists. On the eve of the war
City Hall, in which eight pedestals and two niches he had already come to be regarded as the next in
have been standing vacant since the Hall was succession to great leaders like Forain and Auguste
opened in 1906, and are now to be occupied through Lepere. On the outbreak of war, being not more
the munificence of Lord Rhondda. Included with than forty years of age, he was called to the colours
them was an extra group, representing the British and sent to the Front with the' men of his class.
Queen Boadicea and her two daughters, by Prof. His artistic career may be divided into three periods.
Havard Thomas, who on the nomination of Lord -
Rhondda has been acting as assessor in the carrying For some score years he was content to remain
out of the scheme in its artistic aspects. Mr. an observer of every-day life and popular types.
Thomas's collaborators were Sir W. Goscombe Coming himself from a family of workers—he is
John, R.A., to whom was entrusted the most im- the son of a watchmaker of Chateauroux—he has
portant of the ten statues, that of St. David, patron known what it is to live in modest circumstances ;
saint of Wales ; Mr. Pegram, A.R.A., Mr. Pomeroy, he has mixed with and loved the poor, and he
A.R.A., Mr. E. G. Gillick, Mr. T. J. Clapperton, has been powerfully attracted by the picturesque
Mr. L. S. Merrifield, Mr. W. W.
Wagstaff, Mr. Henry Poole, Mr.
Alfred Turner and Mr. T. N. Crook.
The formal unveiling of the statues
will, we understand, take place in
the course of a few weeks.
Among other exhibitions held in
London last month one of special
interest was that which filled the
three rooms at the Leicester Galler-
ies, where the public were enabled
to study at first hand the work of
Italy's leading caricaturists in rela-
tion to the war. Satire is a weapon
which these artists know how to
wield with unerring aim, and if in
some cases their imagination takes
somewhat extreme forms, there can
be no question of their perfect
sincerity. Besides these caricatures,
the exhibition comprised a series of
drawings by Sgr. Pogliaghi depicting
military operations among the
rugged Alpine peaks, and as showing
the tremendous difficulties which
confront the brave Alpini and
Bersaglieri in this mountain warfare
nothing could be more eloquent.
Simultaneously with this exhibition
the Fine Art Society had on view
a collection of pictures by a Serbian
caricaturist, Frano Angeli Radovani,
who, in spite of occasional excesses,
displays considerable power of
pictorial invective. "le remouleur" etching by Bernard naudin
178