Studio: international art (84.1922)

THE OLD SALON, PARIS, 1922

" LES PIGEONS BLANCS "
BY JEAN DUPAS

(Photo, Vizzavona)

bronze with few exceptions were perhaps
less inspiring, one of the most appealing
being Charles Sarrabezolle's Victoire, the
drawing attached showing it as placed on
top of a long column shaped like an obus,
the base decorated with smaller pillars
of similar character. Among other out-
standing items one must include Francois
Sicard's Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite;
Marcel Walbaum's La Nuit; the stone
group, La Grande Sceur, by Leo. Blairsy-
Laporte, and the Salome in plaster by
Antoine Orlandini. 0 a a a

Every Salon brings the same un-
answered question: What becomes of the

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vast multitude of paintings i Here in
these 43 galleries, to say nothing of the
surrounding balcony, were arrayed a
great number of works, to the artistic
worth of which one can scarcely believe
that time will ever add anything. Nor
were there many picture exhibitors who
reached out beyond the commonplace
type of subject, or expressed much more
than a wearisome poverty of ideas. How-
ever, not to all is this rather drastic and
purely personal feeling of truth applicable.
Cleaner colour than heretofore pre-
dominated, and the majority of the
painters appeared to have wiped the