DOI Heft:
No. 331 (October 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-Talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0115
PORTRAIT OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE
HON. JOHN W. DAVIS, UNITED STATES
AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN. FROM
THE PAINTING BY P. A. DE LASZLO
STUDIO-TALK.
(From our own Correspondents.)
LONDON—The two examples of Mr.
P. A. de Laszlo's recent work, which
are reproduced in this number, illustrate in
an interesting manner distinctly different
sides of his practice. The portrait of Mr.
Davis, the American Ambassador, is one of
those vigorous and definitely stated studies
of character which the artist has accus-
tomed us to expect from him in his por-
trait work. It has a notable quality of
vitality, and in its sense of construction, its
decisiveness of draughtsmanship, and its
ioo
direct and expressive brushwork, it is ex-
ceptionally convincing; and it is distin-
guished throughout by a remarkable alert-
ness of perception and by unusual exact-
ness of observation. The Interior : Little-
worth Corner, which figured in the recent
exhibition of the National Portrait Society
at Messrs. Agnew's, is a painting of a less
familiar type, one in which he has had a
special opportunity to observe subtleties of
light, shade, and colour, and to show his
skill in handling varieties of inanimate
detail. The result at which he has arrived
is wholly acceptable; the strength and
significance of the picture cannot be ques-
HON. JOHN W. DAVIS, UNITED STATES
AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN. FROM
THE PAINTING BY P. A. DE LASZLO
STUDIO-TALK.
(From our own Correspondents.)
LONDON—The two examples of Mr.
P. A. de Laszlo's recent work, which
are reproduced in this number, illustrate in
an interesting manner distinctly different
sides of his practice. The portrait of Mr.
Davis, the American Ambassador, is one of
those vigorous and definitely stated studies
of character which the artist has accus-
tomed us to expect from him in his por-
trait work. It has a notable quality of
vitality, and in its sense of construction, its
decisiveness of draughtsmanship, and its
ioo
direct and expressive brushwork, it is ex-
ceptionally convincing; and it is distin-
guished throughout by a remarkable alert-
ness of perception and by unusual exact-
ness of observation. The Interior : Little-
worth Corner, which figured in the recent
exhibition of the National Portrait Society
at Messrs. Agnew's, is a painting of a less
familiar type, one in which he has had a
special opportunity to observe subtleties of
light, shade, and colour, and to show his
skill in handling varieties of inanimate
detail. The result at which he has arrived
is wholly acceptable; the strength and
significance of the picture cannot be ques-