Studio: international art (83.1922)

THE CRAWHALLS OF MR, W. BURRELL’S COLLECTION

“ THE BULL FIGHT." WATER-
COLOUR BY JOSEPH CRAWHALL

Of the first group, after The Aviary, the
most remarkable are The Camels and The
Bullfight, They both belong to the late
’eighties, when the artist visited Spain and
Tangiers. The former is one of the most
wonderful pieces of broad impressionism
that was ever executed, and the latter, The
Bullfight, with all the audacity and dra-
matic force of Goya, has yet a subtlety
and delicacy quite beyond the reach of the
gifted Spaniard. This delicately bold
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picture, with its tones of black, ivory and
Chinese red, is, perhaps, the chef d’ceuvre
(if one may distinguish among master-
pieces) of all Mr, Burrell’s Crawhalls. 0
The medium of pastel, although he
could not but attain excellent results in it
also, does not seem to have long appealed
to him, as he did comparatively few draw-
ings in that genre ; but the two already
mentioned show a perfect mastery of the
method. a a 0 0 0