Studio: international art (80.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

drawings is clear and concise—at times
almost to the point of being photographic,
but always with that insight into the
character of his models which is beyond
the power of the camera. The accompany-
ing reproductions of two paintings and
two drawings by Mons. Iacovleff will,
however, give the reader a better idea
of his work than any commentary.
Another room at the Grafton contained
an interesting collection of water-colour
landscapes of China by Miss Mary
Macleod, who, if not of the same calibre
as the Russian artist, shows considerable
skill in her renderings of Chinese archi-
tecture, a 0 a 0 a
The gallery of the Alpine Club in Mill
Street, which earlier in the season drew
a large concourse of people to see the por-
traits of Mr. Augustus John, again became

the centre of attraction at the end of May,
when a collection of paintings and litho-
graphs of the Russian revolution by Mr.
Edward Saltoft, a Danish artist, was placed
on view by Messrs. Brown & Phillips, of
the Leicester Galleries. Mr. Saltoft, who
was chief of the Danish Red Cross or-
ganization in Russia from 1916 to 1918
and again visited the country in 1919, had
unique opportunities of witnessing many
manifestations of revolutionary activity
and took advantage of them to record his
impressions. Intensely mournful is the
picture he has given of this social upheaval
among human beings of the same race,
vastly more tragic even than the Great
War itself. A shrewd observer of charac-
ter, as his studies of individual types
testify, he is seen at his best in his portrayal
of crowds—as, for instance, in the painting