Studio: international art (89.1925)

STOCKHOLM

' SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE "
BY RIKARD LINDSTROM

STOCKHOLM.—Year by year, the Venice), and a portrait study by Helge
exhibitions of the Society of Arts Artelius, restrained in composition, scho-
(Kunstforningen), seems to take on more larly and finely carried out in drawing, and
of the character of a national salon. Last rich and vibrating in colour. 0 a
year's show, held in the autumn, contained Another interesting exhibition held last
all types of practice from the most rigid autumn contained a collection of the early
traditionalism to the wildest modernism, and recent works of Henri Matisse. As to
and its general level was but mediocre, the works dating from the last years of
Stdl, a few artists may be singled out from the nineteenth century, I would remark
the crowd. The sculptor, Carl Eldk, that one might find much better pro-
showed a whole collection of his works, ductions from the same period ; while the
for the most part portrait busts of artists, recent ones are, at any rate, better than
writers and so forth, including Liljefors, the crowd of modernist productions which
Nordstrom and Strindberg. Gc'sta fill the so-called " modern" exhibitions
Almgren, who also sought his models in nowadays. A careful study of the earlier
the world of art and letters, exhibited canvases leads to the conclusion that
several portraits which, besides taking as Matisse had quite a different end in view,
much liberty as may be accorded to good The authorities of the National Museum
caricature, displayed great originality and will shortly give a definite decision regard-
a sense of style which invested them with ink Carl Larsson's mural painting : The
qualities of distinction. Among the Sacrifice of Winter, originally designed for
painters one may note the gay and luminous the Museum and not accepted. 0 0
canvases of Rikard Lindstrom (views of Louis Sparre.

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