The sun., 1916-10-08

the Incompatible dancer. in The first
movement Of the world known Pavlowa
gaVotte.
The bronze had been sent from San
Francisco. where IT had been shown in
the Fine Art Building OF the Panama
Pacific Exposition with the other
brOnzes exhibited there by Ma,vina
Hoffman, nearly all Of which repre-
scented Anna Pavlowa. with or without
dancing partners, in some of her best
terpsiChorcan numbers.
The incident recalls the fact that u
all the dancers whose art has been
brought 10 a full fruition In the exact
ing M,riensky School none has Won
the same world fame and none has
'ccr 50 sought as "A model as Mime.
Anna Pav.owa, DIVINITY Of the
Dance" as she has been so aptly
named. Bakst. Anisfeld. Rodin.
Lavery. Hoffman, De Rosaies. De
Noyer-Segonzas, Roerich. Scverini.
Barnes and "A host OF others have i'm
mortalized the grace of the in!mitable
Russian artist in oil. in marble. In
bronze. in water colors-!n fact in
every conceivable reproduction. Even
have the Photographic artists used her
as a model. Saul transfers. the most
famous of the European Photographic
artists, has made more than 5000
studies OF the danseuse at home, in
her garden. in her dances and even on
the street. Some of these are to Ii
found in galleries In London, Paris.
Berlin and Vienna. because Of their
artistic worth. even though they are
bts 1h., ny a. ssh. .-t. -.
man, John Lavery. painted her in oils
with her head red-wreathed In the
"Autumnal Bacchanale" and again in
the sad and marvellously graceful lie
Cygne' tThe Dying Swan). two
famous advertisements which are
ever associated with her.
shortly before the outbreak Of the
present war. the British Government
purchased Lavery's lie Cygne" for
the National Gallery. where II now
hangs. This artist is one of the very
few present day painters whose work
Great Britain has found worthy OF en-
trance to their gallery. lie Cgyne"
gained for Lavery the commission to
paint the members OF the English
royal family.
1t was an American, Malvina Hoff-
man. daughter Of a New York musi-
clan. who was the first to give the
American version OF "Pavlowu In
Art" one of her first marbles of Paw
Iowa brought her immediate fame
when shown in New York, and after
ward won the Grand Prix in Paris.
Her work. IN bronze WAS In the Elmo
TT Building at the exposition. This
first work OF art OF Pavlowa was In
LIE Bacchanale," perhaps the greatest
pas lie deux In which Pavlowa APP
pears. II has been considered by art
critics hat Americas greatest woman
sculptor has put the very music which
causes the emotion Of youthful aban-
don and the ecstasy Of the dancers
into the marble figures. At the pres
cnt time Miss Hoffman is working or
Il bas relief - another Bacchanalian
study that Is to be placed in a govern
mental building in Washington. This
relief Is to be life size and will be the
artists most pretentious work. She
has departed entirely from curves and
Is using straight lines, a departure
that in itself suggests her absorption
in modern Russian art theories, re-
S'llitllt llpiu HI TAu'N :"
The two figures in the relief are 80
placed as to give perfect balance, n
against the other. II To cause the
outlines made by the bodies to form
perfect trianlles,
For Archibald Barnes. u young Eng
lishman. Mime. Pavlowa posed while
injuries compelled him to paint while
lying ON "A couch. Her "twinkling toes
and fairylike beauty gave him new
hope and inspiration" he said, and ne
gave the dancer the greatest credit for
the fame he won through his June in
London" When the futurists n their
, school of flashing Colors and the
cubists with their weird designs came
into prominence Leon Bakst and Boris
Anisfeld, two Russians who won their
spurs In Paris. turned to Pavlowa for
I inspiration. a study of Les Orien-
tals'' is Bakst's most noted work. His
influence upon stage art. greater than
that of any other European to-day, Ia
directly traceable to the inspiration
from the danseuse, and for her he ere
atcd his only American ballet scenes.
The Sleeping Beauty" now on view
At the Hippodromc. Anisfeld's many
futurist prizes have been taken with
| creations that always had raylowa as