Studio: international art (85.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

SALOME APRES LA DANSE ”
BY P. MARCEL-BERONNEAU

(In the possession of Mme.
Agnes Rossollin)

particularly, occupied a distinctive place in
respect of the purity and quiet harmony of
his colour and the sensitive feeling for truth
and beauty in nature. Born in Yorkshire in
1847 he came to Edinburgh when about 25,
and after studying at the Academy school
commenced his career as an exhibitor in
1:873, was elected an associate in 1882 and
an academician in 1889. His earlier work
consisted of figure, illustrative of different
phases of Scottish rural life, but about 1892
he went to Brittany and in that country and
in Normandy found for the remainder of
his life the subject matter of his paintings.
Public collections at home and overseas
contain examples of his work. A. E.

PARIS.—It is surprising how few
artists and students, in comparison
with the many who visit Paris, include in
their round of galleries and museums a
visit to the house of the one outstanding
mystical and poetical French artist,
Gustave Moreau. Since his death in 1898,
his house at No. 11, Rue de la Roche-
foucaud, which he bequeathed with its
contents to the State, has formed a vast
storehouse of interest to the symbolical
and mystically minded enthusiast. 0

To - day in Paris, Pierre Marcel -
Beronneau is the most distinguished among
those who in their art show affinity of
vision with that of Moreau. He was born

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