DOI issue:
No. 281 (August 1916)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21262#0200
Studio- Talk
On the leaves of his sketch-book, or even some soldier in a state of rest, and Naudin, too, has.
odd scrap of paper, or the margin of a letter or occasionally got his comrades to pose for a
diary, he recorded what he saw. Here we become composition, but it is his great merit also to
acquainted with him in the third phase of his career, have essayed to depict the soldier in movement as.
He has done with his humanitarian reveries. He he emerges from the trench, advances at the double,
has learnt to know and understand the soul of throws himself down or creeps stealthily forward :
the French soldier, that is, France itself, and has and the result is very striking—it is war as it
devoted his crayon or his burin to its celebration, really is. A. S.
Doubtless many readers of this magazine have seen -
the posters which the French Government commis- The Paris Museums, which on the outbreak of
sioned him to design for the ingathering of gold, the war two years ago were all closed, have now for
diploma issued by the Bank of France in exchange the most part re-opened their doors to the public,
for the yellow metal, and the programmes he has At the Louvre, however, only certain of the
designed for various schemes of benevolence, sculpture galleries have been re-opened, its most
Without ceasing to be a soldier he has gone on important possessions being still in the provinces,
with his work. The best of all these drawings are At the Petit Palais the tapestries of Rheims
certainly those in which he has recorded his direct Cathedral are on view,
observations, sometimes
with singular fluency of
stroke and brevity of
manipulation. One of these
is the lithograph entitled
L'Exode, executed during
an interval of rest after
the tragic spectacle of the
retreat from Flanders, and
to the same category be-
long a number of striking
sketches, jotted down at
random in the trenches.
M. Helleu, after piously
gathering together a collec-
tion of these slight notes,
has had them reproduced
in a small number of im-
pressions for distribution
among amateurs. They are
indeed wonderful in the
sense of movement and
the heroic spirit which
animates them. Unfortu-
nately the soldier-artist had
such an inferior crayon to
work with that reproduc-
tion by the usual means is
quite impossible. Still, not-
withstanding their cursive
and unfinished character,
they reveal the hand of
a great draughtsman.
Practically all the artists
who have painted war
pictures up to the present
have represented the "l'exode" lithograph by Bernard naudin
i 80
On the leaves of his sketch-book, or even some soldier in a state of rest, and Naudin, too, has.
odd scrap of paper, or the margin of a letter or occasionally got his comrades to pose for a
diary, he recorded what he saw. Here we become composition, but it is his great merit also to
acquainted with him in the third phase of his career, have essayed to depict the soldier in movement as.
He has done with his humanitarian reveries. He he emerges from the trench, advances at the double,
has learnt to know and understand the soul of throws himself down or creeps stealthily forward :
the French soldier, that is, France itself, and has and the result is very striking—it is war as it
devoted his crayon or his burin to its celebration, really is. A. S.
Doubtless many readers of this magazine have seen -
the posters which the French Government commis- The Paris Museums, which on the outbreak of
sioned him to design for the ingathering of gold, the war two years ago were all closed, have now for
diploma issued by the Bank of France in exchange the most part re-opened their doors to the public,
for the yellow metal, and the programmes he has At the Louvre, however, only certain of the
designed for various schemes of benevolence, sculpture galleries have been re-opened, its most
Without ceasing to be a soldier he has gone on important possessions being still in the provinces,
with his work. The best of all these drawings are At the Petit Palais the tapestries of Rheims
certainly those in which he has recorded his direct Cathedral are on view,
observations, sometimes
with singular fluency of
stroke and brevity of
manipulation. One of these
is the lithograph entitled
L'Exode, executed during
an interval of rest after
the tragic spectacle of the
retreat from Flanders, and
to the same category be-
long a number of striking
sketches, jotted down at
random in the trenches.
M. Helleu, after piously
gathering together a collec-
tion of these slight notes,
has had them reproduced
in a small number of im-
pressions for distribution
among amateurs. They are
indeed wonderful in the
sense of movement and
the heroic spirit which
animates them. Unfortu-
nately the soldier-artist had
such an inferior crayon to
work with that reproduc-
tion by the usual means is
quite impossible. Still, not-
withstanding their cursive
and unfinished character,
they reveal the hand of
a great draughtsman.
Practically all the artists
who have painted war
pictures up to the present
have represented the "l'exode" lithograph by Bernard naudin
i 80