Studio: international art (89.1925)

the WORK OF LIVIA KAdAR

and sometimes it helps matters. In her
own works the fortuitous has no place,
and her Nativity, for example, is as
accomplished a piece of work as the pen-
drawings reproduced here. As for her
water-colours, it seems to me that she has
recourse to them for the expression of her
feelings, just as she turns to black-
and-white for the expression of her
thoughts. a 0 a a a

This year Madame Kadar's works will
be on exhibition in London and in Paris.
They are very difficult indeed to repro-
duce, by reason of their technique. The
Csongor and Ttinde, here given, is an
illustration for a work by the great Hun-
garian poet, Vdrosmarhy, and was drawn
with a view to reproduction. The other
two illustrations are very characteristic
works. The St. Simeon Stylites, repre-

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senting the saint on his column, displays
a remarkable combination of the various
elements of her talent. The bold beauty
of the drawing harmonises with the
representation of the vision, and the
interlaced feminine bodies awake, by their
continuous movement, a vivid imaginative
energy. Madame Kadar attains unexpected
effects of luminosity in black-and-white,
as for instance in The Samaritan, which
gives an impression of that " inner light,"
that emanation of love of which Sweden-
borg writes : the silvery reflection of the
tree, the ethereal aspect of the principal
figure, and the religious quality of the
landscape. a a a 0 a
Madame Kadar has the rare capacity
of giving even to her black-and-white
work some of the magic of colour. a

Ch. T.