Studio: international art (90.1925)

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SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO to be unknown. Bought in London by

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF the National Gallery of Scotland in 1924,

SCOTLAND. a a a 0 {t is ProbablY the onlY work bY GoYa of

its kind in this island. a 0 a

T must not be supposed that the four Jacob and the Angel—the Vision after

purchases we here deal with constitute the Sermon, by Paul Gauguin, must be

the only recent additions to the Scottish widely known to students of modern art

Gallery. These four have been selected as it was lent by its former owner, Sir

for especial notice because on the whole Michael Sadler, to an exhibition of the

they seem the most important, and be- painter's work held last summer in

cause they mark, in two cases notably, a Leicester Square, Painted at Pouldu, in

departure from traditional lines, and a Brittany, between his first and final visits

gratifying breadth of view in dealing with to the South Seas, and in spite of its

modern aspects of painting. a 0 Breton origin, it is quite in the manner of

The first work we have to speak of, his Tahitian work, when he had cast off

El Medico, by Goya, is of a very challeng- the influence of Pissaro and other painters

ing character. It was one of the series whom he had previously admired. Though

of designs painted by Goya for the Royal French in subject and origin it is thus quite

Tapestry Factory of Madrid, most of typical, a purely decorative arrangement

which are now in the Prado ; the like the exotic pictures of the Pacific Islands.

tapestry itself is in the Escorial. How Its underlying literary or religious motive

the picture came to this country seems may, one supposes, be held as negligible.

"JACOB WRESTLING WITH THE
ANGEL." BY PAUL GAUGUIN

(National Gallery of Scotland)

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