DOI Heft:
No. 326 (May 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0120
STUDIO-TALK
portraiture. During the war he served in
the Royal Field Artillery, in which he held
the rank of captain, and since its termina-
tion he has been occupied in making draw-
ings for the histories of the Fourth Army
and the Ninth Division. He is a member
of the Royal Society of British Artists, and
has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the
International, the Goupil Gallery, and
other leading shows. 000
New records were established for etch-
ings by D. Y. Cameron, Muirhead Bone,
and James McBey at a two-day sale at
Christie’s late in March. Mr. Cameron's
Ben Ledi jumped from £189 to £294, and
four other prints by him were sold at
record prices averaging about £125 each.
One impression of Mr. Bone's famous
Great Gantry realised 165 guineas, and
another ten guineas less, while several
other examples of his work changed hands
at over £100 each. Four of Mr. McBey’s
prints attained record prices, ranging from
44 to 60 guineas—The Lion Brewery and
Gamrie both reaching the higher sum. For
an artist who is still a good way off forty
these figures are remarkable. The etch-
ings of Anders Zorn are still much sought
after, and several were sold at the same sale
at good prices. 0000
PARIS.—Probably one of the most
energetic, as well as one of the most
prolific sculptors in Paris at the present
time is Mr. Jo Davidson. For many years
past his work has been well known in the
various exhibitions in France and America.
His thorough command of all mediums
relative to the art of the sculptor, combined
with his brilliant insight into character and
his artistic creative ability, was during the
war vigorously employed in executing busts
of the most notable statesmen and com-
manders-in-chief of the Allied Armies,
besides several of celebrated artists and
literary men. 0000
In the summer of last year some fourteen
of these busts were shown in the gallery of
Messrs. Chaine and Simonson, and the
exhibition evoked no slight manifestation
114
PORTRAIT BUSTS OF GENERAL
PERSHING AND MARSHAL FOCH
BY JO DAVIDSON
portraiture. During the war he served in
the Royal Field Artillery, in which he held
the rank of captain, and since its termina-
tion he has been occupied in making draw-
ings for the histories of the Fourth Army
and the Ninth Division. He is a member
of the Royal Society of British Artists, and
has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the
International, the Goupil Gallery, and
other leading shows. 000
New records were established for etch-
ings by D. Y. Cameron, Muirhead Bone,
and James McBey at a two-day sale at
Christie’s late in March. Mr. Cameron's
Ben Ledi jumped from £189 to £294, and
four other prints by him were sold at
record prices averaging about £125 each.
One impression of Mr. Bone's famous
Great Gantry realised 165 guineas, and
another ten guineas less, while several
other examples of his work changed hands
at over £100 each. Four of Mr. McBey’s
prints attained record prices, ranging from
44 to 60 guineas—The Lion Brewery and
Gamrie both reaching the higher sum. For
an artist who is still a good way off forty
these figures are remarkable. The etch-
ings of Anders Zorn are still much sought
after, and several were sold at the same sale
at good prices. 0000
PARIS.—Probably one of the most
energetic, as well as one of the most
prolific sculptors in Paris at the present
time is Mr. Jo Davidson. For many years
past his work has been well known in the
various exhibitions in France and America.
His thorough command of all mediums
relative to the art of the sculptor, combined
with his brilliant insight into character and
his artistic creative ability, was during the
war vigorously employed in executing busts
of the most notable statesmen and com-
manders-in-chief of the Allied Armies,
besides several of celebrated artists and
literary men. 0000
In the summer of last year some fourteen
of these busts were shown in the gallery of
Messrs. Chaine and Simonson, and the
exhibition evoked no slight manifestation
114
PORTRAIT BUSTS OF GENERAL
PERSHING AND MARSHAL FOCH
BY JO DAVIDSON