DOI Heft:
No. 322 (January 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21359#0170
STUDIO-TALK
"FIERCE TIGERS
BY TAKEDA-RAIKYO
handled group of figures by Mrs, Madeline
Wells ; The Castle Grounds, an imposing
landscape by Mr, Leonard Richmond;
Old Darkle, by Mr, E. A. Cox; Mr,
Carruthers Gould's Vale of Porlock ; Mr.
Blamire Young's evocation of mid-Vic-
torian social life, called Sheltered Lives ;
Mr. Joseph Fletcher's The Terrace; and
some curious designs for handkerchiefs by
Mr. Reginald Higgins. 000
The celebrated Rokeby Venus, which ever
since its acquisition by the National Gal-
lery some years ago has been considered
by certain critics to have been only partly,
if at all, painted by Velasquez, was dealt
with by Professor Laurie in his inaugural
lecture at the Royal Academy last session.
Pursuing the method which proved deci-
sive in the famous Romney case, the pro-
fessor has been able, by comparing magnified
photographs of the brushwork of the Venus
and the u Silver Portrait"of Philip, to estab-
lish conclusively that the RokebyUemzs came
from the hand of Velasquez. In the case of
the Spanish Admiral, long ago attributed by
Beruete to the great Sevilian painter's son-
in-law Del Mazo, the same procedure re-
sulted in confirming this attribution. a
Brighton.—The recent autumn ex-
hibition at the Brighton Municipal
164
Gallery deserves unstinted praise. Mr.
Roberts, the Director, brought together a
remarkable collection of beautiful modern
pictures, and a better exhibition than this
has not been seen even in London for a
considerable time. Mr. Davis Richter's
radiant flower picture in the first room
seemed to glow with the intense apprecia-
tion the artist felt for his subject, and this
appreciation was irresistibly imparted to
the beholder. A beautiful picture of a
woman's head by Mr. Gerald Brockhurst
revealed a depth of insight all too rare in
these days of hasty painting and shallow
emotion. In the water-colour room there
was a most successfully hung group of
decorative work, which included a luminous
picture of the nude by Miss D. Hawkesley,
and The Messenger by Miss Sibyl Meugens
—a symbolic picture with a peculiar charm
of its own. 0 0 0 0 S.
TOKYO.—The Sixtieth Art Exhibition
of the Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai (The
Fine Art Association of Nihon), which was
recently held in its galleries in Uyeno
Park, Tokyo, showed the hard struggle now
being made by artists of the conservative
class to stick to the old ideals in face of
the devastating influence of modern times.
The Association, appealed to to uphold
"FIERCE TIGERS
BY TAKEDA-RAIKYO
handled group of figures by Mrs, Madeline
Wells ; The Castle Grounds, an imposing
landscape by Mr, Leonard Richmond;
Old Darkle, by Mr, E. A. Cox; Mr,
Carruthers Gould's Vale of Porlock ; Mr.
Blamire Young's evocation of mid-Vic-
torian social life, called Sheltered Lives ;
Mr. Joseph Fletcher's The Terrace; and
some curious designs for handkerchiefs by
Mr. Reginald Higgins. 000
The celebrated Rokeby Venus, which ever
since its acquisition by the National Gal-
lery some years ago has been considered
by certain critics to have been only partly,
if at all, painted by Velasquez, was dealt
with by Professor Laurie in his inaugural
lecture at the Royal Academy last session.
Pursuing the method which proved deci-
sive in the famous Romney case, the pro-
fessor has been able, by comparing magnified
photographs of the brushwork of the Venus
and the u Silver Portrait"of Philip, to estab-
lish conclusively that the RokebyUemzs came
from the hand of Velasquez. In the case of
the Spanish Admiral, long ago attributed by
Beruete to the great Sevilian painter's son-
in-law Del Mazo, the same procedure re-
sulted in confirming this attribution. a
Brighton.—The recent autumn ex-
hibition at the Brighton Municipal
164
Gallery deserves unstinted praise. Mr.
Roberts, the Director, brought together a
remarkable collection of beautiful modern
pictures, and a better exhibition than this
has not been seen even in London for a
considerable time. Mr. Davis Richter's
radiant flower picture in the first room
seemed to glow with the intense apprecia-
tion the artist felt for his subject, and this
appreciation was irresistibly imparted to
the beholder. A beautiful picture of a
woman's head by Mr. Gerald Brockhurst
revealed a depth of insight all too rare in
these days of hasty painting and shallow
emotion. In the water-colour room there
was a most successfully hung group of
decorative work, which included a luminous
picture of the nude by Miss D. Hawkesley,
and The Messenger by Miss Sibyl Meugens
—a symbolic picture with a peculiar charm
of its own. 0 0 0 0 S.
TOKYO.—The Sixtieth Art Exhibition
of the Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai (The
Fine Art Association of Nihon), which was
recently held in its galleries in Uyeno
Park, Tokyo, showed the hard struggle now
being made by artists of the conservative
class to stick to the old ideals in face of
the devastating influence of modern times.
The Association, appealed to to uphold