Studio: international art (83.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

thing of essence rather than imitation. It
may lose in literal exactness ; it gains a
greater power—the significance of a vision.
In etching and lithography Mr. Martin has
done charming work. The Edge of the Surf
well illustrates him in the latter direction.
There is a fine air of the cool salt sea about
it and a certain sweet inevitableness in the
line, whilst a visible grip of the medium
contributes to its success. The etching
Rouen Cathedral shows the suggestive
qualities of Mr. Martin's line in etching.
This lace-like marvel of architecture could
only have been treated in some such way,
and by reason of the strong similarity of the
artist's touch with brush or needle we can
tell from this etching how he would have
painted the subject. J. W. S.

PARIS.—One of the most noteworthy of
the retrospective art exhibitions
which the curator of the Musee Galliera
organises from time to time, to the infinite
delight of connoisseurs, was that devoted to
watches and clocks. The advice and
assistance of M. Edouard Gelis had been
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EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

WATCHES FROM THE BLOT-GARNIER

GELIS, AND OLIVIER COLLECTIONS

(Musee Galliera, Paris)

resorted to as regards selection and
arrangement, and therefore not a single
omission could be found in any of the
periods when the exquisite art of the watch-
maker flourished in a very riot of adorn-
ment. Not only was every great Parisian
collection represented (including, of course,
M. Gelis' own incomparable examples of
watches and table clocks), but there were
even exhibits from the Dutch Museum at
Amsterdam and the Royal Museum at
Brussels, the former contributing the
unique marriage watch of William II of
Holland and Mary of England (1641),
entirely decorated in enamel with alle-
gorical subjects signed Henri Toutin, and
with a movement by Antoine Mazurier, of
Paris. Specimens of the art of French
watchmakers naturally predominated, but
there was quite a good selection of well-
known English makers, such as A. S. Ling,
Oswald Durant, Thomas Willow, Robert
Grinkin, Thomas Broome, William
Anthony, William Best, Markwick Mark-
ham Perigal, Frazer & Co., Samuel Betts,
Ben Wolverstone, John Champion and J.