New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-31
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.
THE WEEKS ATrRAcrroNs-THE SOCIETY On
AMERICAN ARTISTS FORTHCoMIN3 SALES =
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| The week opens with moro than enough IN local
| galleries TO occupy amateurs OF art. tomorrow al
the Academy the American Water Color Society and
the New York Etching Club begin the public exhibition
of the works partially reviewed I'm The Tribune yecr-
day. The very interesting landscapes and marines by the
| Belgian painter Franz CourtcDs. now at Sanchez &
Millcrs. In West Twenty -thrdst. will remain there
| until the end OF the week. Mr.. +. X. NJ. Rehns
| marines may be seen at the Fifth Avenue Art Gal
eries until Tuesday night, when part OF the collection
will be put mp auction, the remainder being sold
on the following night An exhibition OF works by
Dir. q. II. Smile and Mr.. J. W. Champney will in.-
mcdiately succeed Mr.. Rehn's. At the Avery gallery
the exhibition Of Mr.. W. l.. Plcknclrs excellent oil
! paintings OF Annsquam scenery will not be closed
before Saturday evening In addition to these there
will be tho various attractions touched upon In
| detail below.
The circulars sent ont by the Society OF American
Artists announce that the fourteenth exhibition Of
that organization will he opened 10 the public at tho
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries Monday, May =. and
closed saturday, May o. Vanishing day viii 10
Friday, April 30, and members OF the press will 10
admitted after IL o'clock tie same day. The ar.
fists will have n reception and private view on satur-
day, April 30. Blanks, which may be obtained from
W. A. Coffin secretary 1o West Fifty lftil-st, must
be returned TO him properly filled out on or before
saturday, April 10. Works will be received at the
galleries Tuesday and Wednesday, April 10 and 30
O'Clock p OF the second day being the extreme limit
Of time. Tic annual Webb prize OF 1900 will 10
awarded to the best landscape in the exhibition and
tie Shaw fund prize OF $1,000 will be awarded
for the first time 10 figure composition, the picufo
becoming the property OF Mr. Samuel T. Shaw, tho
founder Of the prize.
Anna ~ ealp
rapidly The Abner Harper sale, at the Fifth Avenue
Art Galleries. Is TO be followed by one, set down for
March g. Of fifty sixty modern paintings collected by
Mr. William Schaus for the " international Art Galerys
which he opened ut No SO Ffth-ave in June, $780,
The gallery is presumably to be abandoned The
pictures which tie sale will bring into the market are
by Bonnat, Cabane, Cain, COrot, Henner, Jaequet,
Lefebvrc, TroyOn. Ude, Won Steten and other popular
artists. Early In April, at the same galleries. will b,
dispersed a collection Of about 40 paintings formed by
Mr. John lIocy, but owned by the Dinsm0re estate
The Hudson River well represented in the coli
lection, well foreigners like Breton Gerome,
vibert, Dnverger. Ploty and Chaplin. 1t is probable
that the collection OF the late Robert L. Cutting, who
bought some fine examples Of Fortuny. Madrazo Rico
hncos. Daubgny ClaycS and Bouguereau, will DO
dispose Of the numerous pictures gathered together by
e eF 's N HsSaRd o the late Marshall o. Robert, The
likely to come TO the hammer.
enters in France where that kind Of art is pracesed
better than it is anywhere else is commonly spec.
tacular In character Effect Is sought for at all
hazards. Puvis dc Chavannes is the great exception
to the rule which binds his really eminent colleagues
Bcsnard, GerveX Laurens and Duran. lie L. as ia
were, unconsciously monumental. Ch)osing themes
which have large human significance, like Peace,
War, Work, Repose he treats them with the utmost
simplicity, with the naivete and tenderness OF the
Italian PIimives, though, IL should tr added, with
breadth OF style they never possessed BY means the
most un:ssumlng he fills spacious surface with
remarkable dignity Two paintings Illustrating his
refined and lovely art the Durand-Ruel gallery.
one, entitled "The Song Of the Shepherds l. "a
recent Independent easel picture; the other, called
simply summer is replica, somewhat varied. VI
the panel for the Hotel de Viile Which shown
In the Salon OF the Champs de Mars last summer.
Both delightfully."- typical of his peculiar mood.
mood In which the franke>t natuTasm Is blended
with fine poetic feeling. There could lie notlln,
more prosaic than the business OF the hour which
IS celebrated in "cuminer7 On a wooded point chat
juts out into a calm, blue river three women ar,
resting and drying themselves after hath. \
fourth woman still I'm the water erdeavorng
tlnid child further into the stream than be evidently
cares to co. still further ID the left in the
Il youth is climbing out upon the bank. and iust
beyond the headland boat containing two figures Is
seen. The artist has elected 10 symbolic the
IN OF its every day episodes. His
aginaion suggests, OF old Arcadan family.
70 this sylvan spot battle with the artleSsne,
other duty. Purity in the treatment OF the nude
was never better eXempihed than IT is by Puvis de
Chavannes. There Is the glamour OF innocence, Of
naturalHe>s of perfectly healthy atmosphere, thrown
over his work Alone in maeriaistic school, he
en,rvatng Ills idylls full OF the sweet. bracin:
air of the Undecided r country the coIGralicn q
latter picture s IN W b o p1t motive r SS IA
sci. is confined to the quiet lilac chord. as has
been called which h. always use, which IS so simple.
and 80 little in kecplng with the aggressive notions
OF contemporary French painters oubdued rs ule
note is i is nevertheless. penetrating ana Ialnh
rcct Snlzed by every sensitive behOlder.
Bouss d. valadon & Co. are the first dealers to
bring of the pictures that figured in tie
recent Jongkind sale in Paris They three oils, Of
which two. saint PARSE pres Nevers' and MaaSuis,
IIolande" are tho best The French picture Is par
ticulary interesting. Ii Is of one of those wide rods
in the sonth which M0nfenard paints With trle IN
eye their ritless scorchng baroness days when
the sun Is at it, height. Jongknd, the painter soft
moonlight effects could not approach such scene ata
time OF intense heat and glare, and although lis
picture is luminous with clear daylight ii is
The few. lines in the perSpecti,e beautifully
managed. In the Dutch study he deals with NOR.
characteristic material. with hat windy plain ol
which windmill or TWO and Il distan church loom up
There Is the same rectude In tho
Necution Of this that there is in the French landscape
md the same realization of cold but vins atmo,pher.
Of "A warmer sort IS ,ezd with more
intimate knowledge OF It, motamOrposing qualities by
Monet in a river which f. exhibited with the
long6inds. Here number OF the most tenuOus 4
DQDlars lift themselves beside rive into heavy after
loon sunshine. Their foliage is a plpatlng mass u
'io ct and purple.
Ii is natural to ascribc to The influence Of Monet
The simmerng. pertervd colors whicl are employed by
Mr.. F. Raublcheck in the landscapes which he has On
exhibition at Bakesec's, Fhavc. nd Thirty fourth
It. The resemblance between the wax Of the y0unger
md that of the elder impressions Is very strong
int Mr. dec he
power OF sunlight for himself. lie las been studying
alone for the three years In Idhnd and Belgium.
ar from any pictures by Monet whm. iCdocd. he has
leyer known until lntcN and he hl formed his owa