Studio: international art (86.1923)

THE STUDIO YEAR-BOOK OF
DECORATIVE ART, 1924 a 0

THIS volume, the 19th of the series,
is now in course of preparation, and
the Editor is prepared to consider designs
with a view to publication therein. In
addition to the usual sections devoted to
Domestic Architecture, including interiors
and decoration, he proposes to devote
considerable space to illustrations of
furniture, fireplaces, textiles and em-
broidery, pottery, porcelain, glassware,
electric light fittings, metalwork, garden
designs and garden furniture. Drawings
or photographs should be sent in not later
than September 15th, addressed to The
Editor, The Studio Year Book, 44
Leicester Square, London, W.C. 2.

constructed of boards which has been
erected on the terrace of the Orangery.
To this “ Salon des Tuileries," as they
have called it, certain men of mark who>
have taken refuge with the new society have
sent contributions—Aman-Jean, Lucien
Simon, Le Sidaner, Maurice Denis,
Menard, and Bourdelle the sculptor,
among others. Deprived of such note-
worthy supporters as these, the Societe
Nationale chose the wisest course under
the circumstances in taking steps to effect
a fusion with the Artistes Frangais. It is
still able to boast of some exhibitors of
repute, such as Ablett and De Gray, both
of them portrait painters of talent; Aubur-
tin, whose decorative paintings are remark-
able ; Hopkins, whose Femme au Miroir will
be remembered; Willaert, the painter of
Flemish landscape; Cottet, with his visions

THE PARIS SALONS OF 1923 *

THE present year 1923 marks a date of
no little significance in the evolution
of the great Salons of French painting. It
will be remembered that thirty-three
years ago—that is in 1890—a group of
distinguished artists, tired of the routine
of the Old Salon, which had been in ex-
istence since the days of Louis Quatorze,
started a secessionist Salon under the title
of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
This society counted among its members
artists of eminence like Meissonier, Puvis
de Chavannes, Rodin, Cazin, Bastien-
Lepage, Gaston La Touche, Besnard, and
a good many others who have in the course
of intervening years shown us works of a
novel and striking character. Little by
little, however, the Societe Nationale
itself has grown old and fallen into the
same ways as the Societe des Artistes
Frangais, so that this year the radical
transformation which both Salons have
undergone is indeed remarkable. The
Societe Nationale has returned to the fold
of the senior society while continuing to
enjoy a certain autonomy, and the two
Salons, hitherto separate, have been united
to make a single and simultaneous display
at the Grand Palais. Concurrently a new
dissentient society, under the presidency
of Besnard, has come into existence and
held its inaugural exhibition in a building
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"VAINQDEUR.” BY RAPHAEL FREIDA

(Societe des Artistes Frangais ; Copy-
right, H. Bonnaire, London; Photo
Vizzavona, Paris)