New-York tribune., 1886-11-14
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS.
OPENING OF THE ART SEASON.

-MUNKAcsY AND HIS PICTURES.
The art season opens with the promise OF
multitude of exhibitions, OF which the present month
will have q generous share. 1t has become common
place to that each art season Will De more
than Its predecessors bat the year to come VIII witness
moro local activity 10 than any year before Even
at this date lively interest is indicated BY tho NUMBER
of people visited tho galleries OF tne
and other collections, and by the uumoer OF private
sales All signs point prosperous season. ana |"
TO be hoped array OF new pictures wmcu
await tho attention pubc will deserve tho kindly
reception which the public seems disposed to give
The frat formal exhibition will be that OF tho paint
,nes ooleoted BY NJ Duraud-Rul which will DO shown
at the Art Galleries Some or these pictures
are owned by tho exhibitor others are conrouseo W
the pfiuters others st arc from private coecuonsin
Paris It is understood that the collection Will De Oh
general rather than character At leastt
will not DO limited to tho works OF the "impressonsta
There will be examples OF Deacroir. Corot Rousseau
Diaz Meissonier and Lefebvre. After this oomes an
American exhibition at tho same galleries. Tho Amer
,o.n natorines from the Salon will not be special
OF this hbton for experience has shown tho
impossiblty OF securing all these works Inc summer
has been anything but an Idle one among artsts "o
NAV Judge from number OF pictures sent In Tor tne
autumn exhibition OF the Academy IL Is saic that oo
pictures be hung nearly as many as A. the spring
exhibitions The Academy will be opened on November
| % The salmagundi exhibition opens January lO az
| the American Art Galleries, and the Artists Fund
| Society about the same time at the Academy'
For the present however. the special exhibitions are
more interesting than tho regular performances OF tue
| season. Remorandts "The Glider which has been
eaousy guarded profane eyes for over year and
half, is at last to be placed upon exhibition oy nr'
sohaua The date not yet finally ouaced. Will prop
ably be the latter part OF this month Inc preseno'
OF Whistler. Munkacsy and Emile Renouf VIII ihc'eAso
popuar interest various exhibitions OF their WORKS.
| some OF Mr. whstler's paintings may be exhibited
| ~ is
| a certainty. Munkacsys "Christ before Piiate
| will probably DO placed upon puOho eknloi'''n
| on Friday. Is understood that d. isenouI
whose reputation far this country Is concerned
rests ma My upon his "Helpng Hand, has come 70 US
"a portrait painter following the example set by sew
erai Euglish artists. His ability in this direction VIII
be illustrated by two portraits which WIN DO
shown WIN SGher RO.S5ss M .us exnons marine
by Renouf entitled "Tne Pilot There nave been IN IN.
aures In regard exhibition OF painIings Dy Inc
ae H.ns MaEsrt and th. Is possible large Pa,ec er
ing by vsc'sv Br0z bs e9hpted in the course Of
the winter at the Metropolitan Museum
The news Of the art schools and societies iacuaos tac
following notes: A class in modelling |" 10 Dc openoa
at the National Academy OF Design tomorrow uhuer
the direction Of Professor F. Edwin Elwei Applicants
ro a.ked 70 submit xamples Of work 20 tho com
mittee of the school At the 81 Gotham Art Students
a morning cast class for men and women has been @
Society Of American Artists have recently elected 20
membership Miss Dora Wheeler and me,srs +; r.
Pearce, Ii. 7. Mowbrsy W. M j. Rice and W. A. Comm
Mihaly Munkacsy whose arrival 10 expected here To-
morrow, is an interesting and distinguished hgure'
whatever may be thought OF the concessions made oy
the art Of his recent commercial "enerprise
BY birth he belongs to the HUNGARIAN peasantry He
was born in 1874 at little town OF Munkacs, the
name aerward adopted as his own. where his father
filed some minor place In the Custom House Hs early
life contained some strange aud terrible experiences
The Russian occupation OF Hungary was accompanied
mi brief military trials anu
frequent executions Munkacsys father who had taken
I'D arms against the Russian invaders. was captured
and died in prison. leaving the child an orphan az the
age of four. He was cared for oy
an aunt who, as the story goes, was
murdered In his presence by a party OF the bsndta
who took advantage of helpless. lswsss condition OK
the country BY another poor relative the boy MunKan
Az was apprenticod to furniture maker VINO employed
him to paint chests for tho peasants In bright coiora Id
this he took certain pleasure and when sroins por-
gave idea Of something better no
proaled by the artists Instructions aud painted nor.
trait Of his uncle. subsequently, Munkacy ssueo' ,"
Pesth and his first picture obtained somo recoxnt'"n,
and he was by tho painters Thau and Lsc
n. attempted Vienna finding the fees OF the Venns
Academy impossible he went to Munich. where he was
received by Franz Adam. and sfterwsrd continued MS
studies at Dusseldorf For time he suffered from se-
nsss he fortunately recovered Al Munich no
successful IN y1Sa: sO%psisoPB OS III. BstroSs ed@pSsi
Ons described being full Of life out very i%pssiso
sysssmatie yt1a instruction which proved valuable
without hsTps,as ,,.or. h's a,. nT. was TO-
ward genre painting. and no naturally treated the ne
MscsnT an and sSs
Masysf painter were viewed with some consternson
m s0o o ss
him general reputation tho Lsst Day OF e Hnn
sarisu custom Of exposing erainAi; conismssd 70
the gus sa IN IN ~. as4
a Of 1870 This picture followed by the Episode o.
we: 81 shop and snI
ne: ot the ws,ss su0a O sS psI,Sa
ps"'r ,.sssn. SsTsr'G n..uss nG.
rsasio. or Roos do not approach Munkaes. stroller.
% sss owned r IN this country Ike picture
representing the artisrs treatment OF ainsren' es.
tapinS portraits Of Munkacy and his wife. which was
in the seney collection. About this time snnssey
several nterors gayer In color AND lixhsr
Zone than his previous works. which were justly orit
csed for the presence Of sooty, oituminons coorns
In 1873 Munkacsy turned from his genres and ine''
!; ora TO attempt historical the result being Moa
Debating Paradise Lost to his Daughters" when II" u
q a tho Ienox Library In this picture the ns"'s
| of Milton may invite adverse comment hAo 'Is.
o Of the daughter who 10 standing. but sn 'A.'
need be noted hero Is the significance OF the "o'A -
y marking the beginning of new period In the s''
- | ufa II was o nober and moro ambitious suoJco' -
!, any chosen before and II represented certain
d cal progress The deep black OF Mtons dress ~nu w
u rtch dark eoloring OF tho furniture hold tner p@
obtrusively than In other pctures ana 'ncre =
q ,.r,.,v Munkscsy has proved himself 20 DO ee's'''
q hu, he ia colonst Of limited Every one fssos
n1ss tho richness and intensity Of his olAsx.. oar
Srays aud blues. last illustrated IN ,ns .,
Interior perhaps the apSss .s. country his hshsr
the arts. ss' much o. ns eo!oTSx nsS ss
msrrsa Uy .o%s of S aud opacity
Rs.. of aSa va r.sr s1.wss a.
painter OF mss,sr Of tn: brush, ssSs esa.rsS
win splsndw wssD sSs question comes :. 20 what sSe
has 70 Z: n bic ssor WORK Tas
pressed % followed BY still more ambition. wos
lv Mton hsfore plate" After this came tne .n''s "
~ the "Cnrs. followed year ago oy the death o.