Studio: international art (78.1919)

STUDIO-TALK

"LA CAMILUCCIA.” BY
PIERRE DELAUNAY

PARIS.—At the Georges Petit Galleries
during the latter part of October, an
exhibition of a group of works by Pierre
Delaunay revealed to connoisseurs an artist
of talent hitherto unknown to them. Pierre
Delaunay, born at Angers in 1870, was a
pupil of Bonnat at the Ecole Nationale. On
leaving the school, necessity compelled him
to work as a designer and illustrator of
fashions. Meanwhile he devoted himself
ardently to landscape, and in 1908, at Men-
tone, chance brought him in touch with
Harpignies, who took a warm interest in
him. In 1911 he left his situation and
went to Rome, where he spent two years,
accumulating material for the exhibition he
had set his heart on, but which he had
postponed by the advice of Harpignies.
Then came the war. Delaunay, though
not liable to military service, abandoned his
projects and joined the colours. Sent to
the Front by his own wish, he was killed by
a German bullet during an assault in June

1915. He has left behind an important
collection of works, comprising, besides
many drawings and sketches, a number of
fine canvases painted in Paris, in Brittany,
Mentone, and Rome. A Classicist by
training, he fell under the spell of Impres-
sionism, and succeeded in applying to a
framework of sound draughtsmanship all
the resources of a luminous and vibrating
palette. 0000 M. V.

Last spring, during a brief sojourn in
Copenhagen, I visited the studios of
Messrs. Bing and Grondhal's Porcelain
Works, and this visit has left with me a
very pleasant remembrance. It has revived
the delightful impressions experienced in
1900, when the charm and beauty of the
ceramic art of Denmark were revealed to
us in Paris at the Exposition Universelle.
I noted, too, with great satisfaction that
the artists and craftsmen now employed in
this establishment have lost none of those

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