New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-30
the current number OF ''scribner's Magazine" He
thus paints Pissarro among his comrades:


The evenings that Pissarro did not come TO take
ms coffee in the Nouvelle Athenes we're very rare
or Degas, and when they we're there he sat listen
S, approving OF their ideas. joining IN the con
sarTo. He would always endeavor 20 explain TO
WIS not great master OF drawing, nut ne never
salq anything striKlngly original. He was a wise
his beard was white ard his hair was white. ana
me W'.s bald though at the time ne could not nave
Ittt Sf"uI-yeS, NJ must have been the Oldest he
Seventy-lve. The last time I s9w MIN was at
IIG 3n about six years ago. and he did not look
nor was ne Older in mind. He was enthusiastic ana
d 1eJres'ed In everything; he was painting the cathe
s,.r hGIoIe, and had painted the cathedral Ps-
was sort OF wil-o-the- wiep Of painting and his
course "aS zigzag. But though his wanderinPs
uyluuality. not even when he painted Yachts after
ne manner OF Signac, IN dots. In the Confessions
s9rro and as th.rk to-day as I thought then
crng apples in n rrde1 81 group OF girls gatI
TO NOV, "'gLlIGIIy h1rmonizcd. The figures seem
TO- NE ~ world of quiet color and happy aspira-
brancb,II" Us - apples viii never fall from the
6lilnl VIII never ho nlIeG that garden is the gar
painter has set in an i LOT ilV ing p1t W if ,
Hjcf,,r Isdr me mas painted many such pictures
ftIle midew that has collected on the earths
neagoEo Or ore mas UNDERSTOOD tho pdtlos Of the
stood il far better than Nnlet who has never
painter HIS suB orf t fa an }re m
t tb but the painting is much the same. ana
mentaties 7'-'
There is much truth In this and especially Pm the
remark That Pissarro never lost his Individuality
he mad not a tithe Of Manets power, and little Of
lone' alertness' yet every Of the pictures in
TINS exhibition has its own charm
About two hundred paintings are on exhibition at
le nun Avenue Art Galleries where they are to
pe SOFA next Thursday, Friday and Saturday even
ings- They were collected by the late Henry
Hicks-Davis and by Mr.. Thomas BankIey. and a
rev oil them are being sold, to satisfy a loan by
order OF Mr. Henry J. Oldring. Modern Cont
mental artists furnish forth the bulk Of the show
win popular subject pictures Of varying degrees Of
merit French cleverness is much TO the fore in
this rather miscellaneous collection
Foreign hands are responsible for the groups Of
new portraits that appear at several places IN
town. NJ. Chartran, at the Knoedler Galleries has
portraits of the Maharaja Of KapurthaIa the
Countess de Maupeou, Miss Blanche I. Shoe
maker and Mrs c. l.. F. Robinson They are
drawn with great aplOmb and all convey an i'm
preston of absolute accuracy. They are all like
wise wanting in distinction Of color and Of STYLE
Mr. Wilhelm Funk at the galleries of FfsheI Ad-
Ter * Schwartz. has eleven portraits which are ex
ecuted with more breadth and he xibnfty but are
similarly deficient I'm beauty. Prince Pierre Trou-
betzkoy in the eleven portraits which he shows al
the Hlaenzer Galleries, falls little below the
standard which he set for himself in an earlier ex
hibiton at the same place. but If he has not
strengthened his technique he still preserves the
refined taste, and especially the suave manner for
which We have before this commended his work
His portraits may not be mastery but they are
agreeable and reflect a genuinely artistic tempera
ment
Several exhibitions are just announced There is
one at the Macbeth Galleries Of two portraits and
two landscapes by Mr.. Abbott H Thayer with a
number Of pastels and water coIors. mostly Of
flowers. by Miss Gladys Thayer AT the Powell
Art Gallery there will presently be oueDed an ev
mbtion Of New-YOrk street scenes and IandscaDes
by Mr. Paul Cornoyer. The Architectural League
will hold press view next Friday at the Fine
Arts Building Of fits twenty-ffrst annual exhibit
ton The annual dinner will be given on the even
ing OF the same day, the regular reception viii
follow on Saturday evening and the galleries viii
be opened 10 the public Sunday. The league
promises a special feature this year saying in its
circular In 1904 the New York Chapter Of the
American Institute Of Architects established a
medal Of honor TO be awarded for distinguished
merit IN executed work Of architecture but as
there were so few entries for this prize at the last
exhibition no award made; it is expected that
the drawings and photographs entered for this
competition viii lend additional eclat to this occa-
sion"
The salmagundi Club gives some interesting fig
ures IN relation 10 its annual sale Of unframed
canvases. One hundred and forty-six pictures
were disposed Of at the two sessions Of the recent
auction They fetched altogether 1913, netting
the club the comfortable sum Of 1924 so. The
highest prices paid were 1905 for Midnight" bv
D. J. Cue; S226 for The Palace Door" by a T.
Mlnar; 1901 for "Suruet at Sea" by +. X NJ
REIN and $500 for "Recuerdo de Espana," by F.
Luis Mora.