Studio: international art (86.1923)

SOME RECENT WORK BY MR. P. A. DE LASZLO

"H.R.H. PRINCESS LOUISE
DUCHESS OF ARGYLL.” BY
P. A. DE LASZLO, M.V.O.

tion of tone and colour subtleties. He has
gained, too, in his judgment of character;
his analysis is more intimate and his
suggestion of his sitter’s personality is more
expressive than it was a few years ago. He
never seems to have had any difficulty in
producing an unusually correct likeness—
he has always drawn too well and judged
tones too accurately to fail in that respect—
but he realises now a good deal more than
the mere outward aspect of his subject, a
Fortunately, his exhibition included some
of his earlier paintings as well as those
which represented the latest stages in his
evolution and, therefore, it made possible
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many instructive comparisons. It empha-
sized the progressive maturing of his art
and made clear the extent of the change
which has taken place in his application of
technical methods, but it also showed that
he has changed greatly in another way—in
his aesthetic sentiment and sense of style.
There was among the portraits one, of
Madame la Baronne Baeyens, which was
counted, when it was painted some years
ago, as one of the greatest of his successes
and for which he was specially honoured
in Paris. It is an admirable example of the
production of a very accomplished foreign
artist, trained on the Continent and