DOI Heft:
Nr. 352 (July 1922)
DOI Artikel:Taylor, Ernest Archibald: The Old Salon, Paris, 1922
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21396#0032
THE OLD SALON, PARIS, 1922
" fete nocturne "
by fr. flameng
(Photo, Vizzavona)
with the white pigeons. To quite another
orderof pictorial expression belongs L'Ours
et L'Amateur des Jardins, by Jean Maxence.
The subject—a little figure in pink asleep
amidst the sunlit garden of foxgloves and
fuchsias, unconscious of his playfellow
the bear's method of killing a fly which
crawls lazily on his cheek—quaintly illus-
trates the lines from La Fontaine decora-
tively applied to the frame: " Rien n'est
si dangereux q'un ignorant ami, mieux
vaudroit un sage ennemi." a a 0
To a different land one is carried in
the work of Joseph Bail, by whose recent
death France has lost one of her most
competent painters. His wonderful
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technical knowledge was clearly evinced
in his Les Dentellieres, which received the
medal of honour in 1902, and his La
Lingerie (Hotel Dieu de Beaune) evoked
considerable praise when shown in the
Petit Palais in 1918. Much as I would
desire to dwell on other works by French
artists, space will but permit of a brief
enumeration, amongst which I must not
omit the personal Baigneuses, by Alfred
Dabat, the large gallery of decorative
panels by J. G. Henri-Martin ; P. Marcel-
Beronneau's visionary Fatale ; the simply
conceived Brume sur la Seine, by P. J.
Berteaux; the decorative harmony in blues
and violets, Jesus est mis au Tombeau,
" fete nocturne "
by fr. flameng
(Photo, Vizzavona)
with the white pigeons. To quite another
orderof pictorial expression belongs L'Ours
et L'Amateur des Jardins, by Jean Maxence.
The subject—a little figure in pink asleep
amidst the sunlit garden of foxgloves and
fuchsias, unconscious of his playfellow
the bear's method of killing a fly which
crawls lazily on his cheek—quaintly illus-
trates the lines from La Fontaine decora-
tively applied to the frame: " Rien n'est
si dangereux q'un ignorant ami, mieux
vaudroit un sage ennemi." a a 0
To a different land one is carried in
the work of Joseph Bail, by whose recent
death France has lost one of her most
competent painters. His wonderful
12
technical knowledge was clearly evinced
in his Les Dentellieres, which received the
medal of honour in 1902, and his La
Lingerie (Hotel Dieu de Beaune) evoked
considerable praise when shown in the
Petit Palais in 1918. Much as I would
desire to dwell on other works by French
artists, space will but permit of a brief
enumeration, amongst which I must not
omit the personal Baigneuses, by Alfred
Dabat, the large gallery of decorative
panels by J. G. Henri-Martin ; P. Marcel-
Beronneau's visionary Fatale ; the simply
conceived Brume sur la Seine, by P. J.
Berteaux; the decorative harmony in blues
and violets, Jesus est mis au Tombeau,