Studio: international art (83.1922)

SIR JAMES MURRAY'S COLLECTION

GLEN NEVIS." BY
D. Y. CAMERON, R.A.

most important are Mr. Sargent's Blind
Musicians, a tour-de-force, strong and full
of character, and his exquisite water-colour
of the Alhambra, brilliant and vivid and
full of sunlight; water-colours by Mr.
D. Y. Cameron, Mr. Charles Sims,
Brabazon, Mr. Brangwyn, and drawings
by Mr. John, Mr. Muirhead Bone, J. F.
Millet, Sir William Orpen, and M.
Lhermitte, 0000a

Besides these there are the pictures
reproduced in this article. The Loggia,
by Mr. J. S. Sargent, lives by its ex-
traordinary quality of intimate truth and
reality. It moves because it is so remark-
ably real ; through it one makes an ex-
perience which has almost the intensity
of an experience directly inspired by nature
itself. The white wall in shadow is
exquisitely varied in its tones of colour
and the gradation of the pink pavement
is so subtle as to be felt rather than per-
ceived. The delicate truth of values by
which the white statue is picked out from
the white wall is the work of a master.

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Its qualities cannot be adequately re-
produced. 00000
The Still-Life, by Mr. W. Nicholson,
is beautifully effective ; the bright flowers
against the velvety black background
have an immediate charm. 0 0

The Fete Champetre, by A. Monticelli,
is a picture which Sir James Murray had
in his original collection. Among the
“ pictures of the year " from Burlington
House it was like an opal fallen on common
ground. Mr. Arthur Symons's praise of it
set Sir James's thoughts from popular
pictures to real art. It became a touch-
stone and the productions of Burlington
House could not stand the test. It is a
fantasy suggested by the pattern made
on the ground by the play of sunlight
through leaves. The effect suggested to
the painter a group of fair women in
dresses of wonderful colours. The picture
is more defined than many of Monticelli's
later paintings. 0000

The charm of The Roscommon Volunteer,
by Sir William Orpen, is perfectly obvious;