DOI issue:
No. 385 (April 1925)
DOI article:Dr. Francisco Llobet's collection, Buenos Aires
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0201
DR. LLOBET'S COLLECTION, BUENOS AIRES
LA SOUPIERE DE VIEOX MAR-
SEILLE." BY A. VOLLON
(Collection of Dr. F. Llobet)
DR. FRANCISCO LLOBET'S COL-
LECTION, BUENOS AIRES a a
AS testimony to the immense strides
that have been made by Argentine art
lovers during the past two decades, it would
be hard to beat the recent loan collection
on view in the salons of the Amigos del
Arte, which embodied the treasures of Dr.
Francisco Llobet, a well-known Argentine
amateur of painting, whose tastes turn
more especially towards the modern
French school. An excellently produced
catalogue was issued, giving a number of
good reproductions in half-tone. Dr.
Llobet contributed a short note on each
picture reproduced, making very good use
of the small space at his disposal. 0 0
To detail the exhibits at length is out
of the question, but among the seventy odd
canvases were to be found a very fine
Monet, Les Demoiselles de Giverny, a
remarkably clever study of afternoon light
on a field of haycocks ; a striking Rouen
Bridge, by Camille Pissarro; a charac-
teristic village street dipped in that
wonderful opalescence which marks Le
Sidaner ; and a particularly fine Menard,
two bathers by a lake placed in park-like
pleasaunces. There were several good
Henri-Martins, some Dupres, a Vollon
still-life entitled Vieux Marseille, and a
flower-piece by Fantin-Latour. Two very
good Sisleys, three representative examples
of Gaston La Touche, an early Har-
pignies, a nude by Carriere, and a couple
of distinctly characteristic Corots, also
stood out; while among the other Schools
a Valencian shore study, Sacando la Barca,
by Sorolla, a Brangwyn, The Caravan, and
one of Bonington's seascapes, caught the
eye. A Constable, The Farm, though
characteristic, was perhaps not quite as
full of that painter's inimitable quality as
the paintings one is accustomed to see at
home. There is, however, little utility
in listing mere names of men and their
works well known in Europe, the chief
object of this note being to emphasise the
growth of Argentine taste in matters
artistic, and to point out that in this city
of close on two million inhabitants, empha-
tically cosmopolitan and extraordinarily
free from the fetters of tradition in art,
as in many other respects, the love of
pictures grows year by year. 0 0
H. H. H.
NUDE STUDY BY EUGENE
CARRIERE
(Colin, of Dr. F. Llobet)
195
LA SOUPIERE DE VIEOX MAR-
SEILLE." BY A. VOLLON
(Collection of Dr. F. Llobet)
DR. FRANCISCO LLOBET'S COL-
LECTION, BUENOS AIRES a a
AS testimony to the immense strides
that have been made by Argentine art
lovers during the past two decades, it would
be hard to beat the recent loan collection
on view in the salons of the Amigos del
Arte, which embodied the treasures of Dr.
Francisco Llobet, a well-known Argentine
amateur of painting, whose tastes turn
more especially towards the modern
French school. An excellently produced
catalogue was issued, giving a number of
good reproductions in half-tone. Dr.
Llobet contributed a short note on each
picture reproduced, making very good use
of the small space at his disposal. 0 0
To detail the exhibits at length is out
of the question, but among the seventy odd
canvases were to be found a very fine
Monet, Les Demoiselles de Giverny, a
remarkably clever study of afternoon light
on a field of haycocks ; a striking Rouen
Bridge, by Camille Pissarro; a charac-
teristic village street dipped in that
wonderful opalescence which marks Le
Sidaner ; and a particularly fine Menard,
two bathers by a lake placed in park-like
pleasaunces. There were several good
Henri-Martins, some Dupres, a Vollon
still-life entitled Vieux Marseille, and a
flower-piece by Fantin-Latour. Two very
good Sisleys, three representative examples
of Gaston La Touche, an early Har-
pignies, a nude by Carriere, and a couple
of distinctly characteristic Corots, also
stood out; while among the other Schools
a Valencian shore study, Sacando la Barca,
by Sorolla, a Brangwyn, The Caravan, and
one of Bonington's seascapes, caught the
eye. A Constable, The Farm, though
characteristic, was perhaps not quite as
full of that painter's inimitable quality as
the paintings one is accustomed to see at
home. There is, however, little utility
in listing mere names of men and their
works well known in Europe, the chief
object of this note being to emphasise the
growth of Argentine taste in matters
artistic, and to point out that in this city
of close on two million inhabitants, empha-
tically cosmopolitan and extraordinarily
free from the fetters of tradition in art,
as in many other respects, the love of
pictures grows year by year. 0 0
H. H. H.
NUDE STUDY BY EUGENE
CARRIERE
(Colin, of Dr. F. Llobet)
195