Studio: international art (85.1923)

THE COLLECTION OF MR. WILLIAM BURRELL

"DON SALTERO'S WALK ”
BY CECIL LAWSON

Latour, is represented on a fairly large
scale by Chrysanthemums (p. 255). 0 0

Mentioned in the first article, but not
of the Edinburgh group, and quite lately
acquired, is the little Fruit, by Edouard
Manet, recently shown at the Burlington
Fine Arts Club, One wonders if this can
be the Pear which once hung in the studio
of Degas, and so fascinated George
Moore, as he relates in “ Vale," that he
could not look at the pictures of the other
master i 0000a

All these recent French painters, Fantin
alone, perhaps, excepted, are the direct
heirs of Chardin. His delight in the
appearances of familiar things, and his
love of a robust use of paint, are echoed
in the later artists. Modern French

still-life may justly be said to have derived
from him. 0 0 0 0 (3

Of the remaining pictures in the col-
lection the fine and large Lucien Simon,
Fair in Brittany, a work of characteristic
bustle and colour, should be mentioned.
It brings us to the painting of to-day. Mr.
Burrell has other large examples of Simon
elsewhere. Modern English art is repre-
sented by Cecil Lawson's Don Saltero's
Walk, an early and stylish picture by that
manly landscape painter, and also by a
good water-colour by Arthur Melville—
these, of course, in addition to the large
and splendid lot of Crawhalls. 0

Altogether Mr. Burrell has reason when
he modestly comments on his collection as
u a pretty good lot." T. C. M.

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