Studio: international art (90.1925)

REGIONAL ART AT PARIS

motives, and perfect charm in the details. ■Pn^>r "'f'fj '

The exterior has more unity than the .
interior, where the Societe de Saint-Jean ,■■ ■ - - , Ji

has been compelled to find work for too >""">^- 'f%T^0f<^
large a number of members. The tower, ^*"""*"*'^^^
which is full of force and grandeur, is
crowned by a large figure of Christ and the
symbols of the four Evangelists, by the
sculptors Charlier and Py ; the porch is
by M. Chirol, and is ornamented with
figures in coloured clay, which have
elements both of archaism and modernism.

Behind the high altar is a large decorative ^ „f
painting by M. Maurice Denis. There are jar
stained-glass windows and other decora-
tions by Mile. Reyre, M. Georges Desval- EESSSS^
lieres, MM. Barillet, Le Chevallier, Jacques
Gruber, etc., many of them well deserving
of close attention ; and the only fault of

the interior as a whole is that the work is alsatian pavilion, architect

too much crowded together and confused. £™\^y?°»£ iS«2

But there is plenty of talent here ! a Arts> Paris- Pil0t0' Henri Manuel)

I have reserved to the last a note on the house called VArt en Alsace, built and

equipped under the direction of the old

The Studio nor myself was responsible, the illus-
, tration of a piece of glassware on p. 100 of the

shoemakers house, french Augusf number (m my artlde on the Czecho-

village, architect, g. Slovakian Pavilion) was wrongly attributed to
guillemonat. signby jjuet Braunerova : it was by a group of students of
albert lebeau. (internal. h prague School of Decorative Art, under Pro-

Lxhn. of Modern Decorative ° r '

and Industrial Arts Paris) lessor V. H. Brunner.j 0 0 0 0

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