DOI Heft:
No. 390 (September 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0182
LONDON
frcm that of the general run of caricatur-
ists, for he is not content merely with
exaggerations of the personal peculiarities
of his victims, but seeks to give to his
drawings a definitely decorative character
and to turn each face that he studies into
a sort of pattern of flowing lines. The
results at which he arrives in this way
are effective and amusing—his show cer-
tainly made good its claim to attention. 0
Mr. Spencer Pryse has made for
himself a position of much prominence
among the artists of to-day by his work
in lithography, so the exhibition of ex-
amples of his practice in this medium,
which he held at the Alpine Club Gallery
(now to be seen at the Twenty-One Gallery)
had considerable interest. The most im-
portant things in it were the British
Empire Pictures—a set of twenty-four
designs-—which were originally commis-
sioned by the Wembley Exhibition authori-
ties for publicity purposes, but he showed,
176
VIEW IN THE BASILICA, PALACE OF
ARTS, BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION
as well, a number of smaller lithographs
of a wide variety of subjects which gave
an excellent idea of his versatility and
technical skill; there were also in the
gallery his large oil painting, Greyhound
Coursing, and some decorative panels
painted in wax medium. 000
Some sculpture of an unusual type by
Mr. Herbert Haseltine, was exhibited at
Knoedler's Gallery—a series of portrait
statuettes of British champion animals
which have gained honours at various
live stock shows. In his treatment of
these statuettes the artist had adopted a
somewhat formal manner which was
decoratively effective, but at the same time
free from archaic affectation, and by the
soundness of his construction and the
expressiveness of his modelling he made
his work thoroughly convincing. 0 0
The colour plate given here, reproducing
the drop scene executed by V. Polunin
for the Diaghileff Ballet, illustrates
frcm that of the general run of caricatur-
ists, for he is not content merely with
exaggerations of the personal peculiarities
of his victims, but seeks to give to his
drawings a definitely decorative character
and to turn each face that he studies into
a sort of pattern of flowing lines. The
results at which he arrives in this way
are effective and amusing—his show cer-
tainly made good its claim to attention. 0
Mr. Spencer Pryse has made for
himself a position of much prominence
among the artists of to-day by his work
in lithography, so the exhibition of ex-
amples of his practice in this medium,
which he held at the Alpine Club Gallery
(now to be seen at the Twenty-One Gallery)
had considerable interest. The most im-
portant things in it were the British
Empire Pictures—a set of twenty-four
designs-—which were originally commis-
sioned by the Wembley Exhibition authori-
ties for publicity purposes, but he showed,
176
VIEW IN THE BASILICA, PALACE OF
ARTS, BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION
as well, a number of smaller lithographs
of a wide variety of subjects which gave
an excellent idea of his versatility and
technical skill; there were also in the
gallery his large oil painting, Greyhound
Coursing, and some decorative panels
painted in wax medium. 000
Some sculpture of an unusual type by
Mr. Herbert Haseltine, was exhibited at
Knoedler's Gallery—a series of portrait
statuettes of British champion animals
which have gained honours at various
live stock shows. In his treatment of
these statuettes the artist had adopted a
somewhat formal manner which was
decoratively effective, but at the same time
free from archaic affectation, and by the
soundness of his construction and the
expressiveness of his modelling he made
his work thoroughly convincing. 0 0
The colour plate given here, reproducing
the drop scene executed by V. Polunin
for the Diaghileff Ballet, illustrates