Studio: international art (80.1920)

REVIEWS

hers with exceeding skill the accompany-
ing illustrations amply demonstrate. These
often extremely composite motifs of hers
are not only beautifully cut, but they
are very complete little genre scenes,
actually endowing their figures with a
distinct individuality. Miss Jastrau, who
only boasts eighteen summers, was an ex-
hibitor at this year's Danish Royal
Academy, where her silhouettes met
with speedy appreciation. G. B.

REVIEWS.

Paul Cezanne. Par Gustave Coquiot.
(Paris : Ollendorff.)—Cezanne has been
dead fourteen years, and the number of
his admirers has been steadily growing
ever since. He has a host of disciples
and imitators, too—the exhibitions of the
present day are evidence of that—but
how few of them really understand the
aims of their master i It is true that
were they to follow his patient, pains-
taking methods, the result would be a
very small output. It would never do
in these days of hurry and bustle to ask
a sitter for eighty or a hundred sittings
—and then, may be, leave a portrait
unfinished, as Cezanne did once, because
his sitter would persist in talking. M.
Coquiot's study of this remarkable per-
sonality can only increase the respect
which every serious student of the art
of painting must feel for his memory.
Though he gives only in outline what
others—and especially M. Vollard—have
given in much more detail, his survey of
Cezanne's career and work is complete
in so far as the essential facts are con-
cerned. Monochrome reproductions of
nearly a score of Cezanne's paintings are
included. 0 0 S3 0 £3

Attraverso gli AM e le Cartelli. By
Vittorio Pica. Quarta Serie. (Bergamo :
Istituto Italiano d'Arte Grafiche.)—It must
be now fully twenty years since Signor
Pica began his unique series of critical
essays on the work of representative
graphic artists of modern times. Issued
first of all as fascicoli, these essays now
form four substantial volumes, each with
a multitude of illustrations and remark-

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able for the diversity of its contents.
Especially is this the case with the fourth
volume, recently published, in which a
veritable galaxy of notable names greets
the reader. First there is a paper on the
drawings of Victor Hugo and the etchings
of Jules de Goncourt; then further on
the author discusses the drawings of
three sculptors—Gemito, Meunier and
Rodin; and this is followed by essays
on " two princes of modern etching "—
Meryon and Seymour Haden, and the
drawings and etchings of the Spanish
painter Fortuny. The book decorators
of Russia—Somoff, Bakst, Bilibin, Benois,
etc.—are the subject of another paper,
while the remainder deal with the work of
Rouveyre, " spietato vivisettore " of the
modern man and woman; Henry de
Groux, the war's romantic visionary;
Emile Bernard, " sapiente architetto del
libro " ; and the two Italians, Disertori
and Ugonia. Truly a cosmopolitan col-
lection. The illustrations number about
400 and are excellently printed. 0

The Eighth Volume of the Walpole
Society, 1919-1920. Edited by A. J.
Finberg. (Issued only to subscribers.)
—With the exception of a paper by Mr.
A. P. Oppe on Francis Towne, a land-
scape painter who, dying in 1816, has
been undeservedly forgotten for a century,
and a notice of a lost monument by
Nicholas Stone, whose work was reviewed
at length in a preceding volume, the con-
tributions to this new volume of the
Walpole Society are concerned wholly
with portraiture. Mr. Lionel Cust deals
with the iconography of that " goodly
man" and ardent patriot, Sir Walter
Raleigh, of whom thirteen portraits are
reproduced, in addition to others of his
wife, his son and his brother. The chief
article, however, in point of length, is
one by Mr. Richard W. Goulding on the
portraits of the Wriothesley family, cover-
ing nearly or quite two centuries of family
history and lavishly illustrated with re-
productions. The papers published in
these volumes are important contributions
to the hi?fory of British art, and sub-
scribers to the Society get good value for
the subscription which entitles them to
receive these publications. 00a