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THE STUDIO FOUNDED IN 1893 VOL. 97 NO. 433 APRIL 1929 2/- net THE MIRROR OF ACHIEVEMENT
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“THE STUDIO” VOL. 97 APRIL 1929 No. 433 EDITED BY GEOFFREY HOLME CONTENTS Title --- Author --- Page --- The Recent Work of Augustus John --- by T. W. Earp --- The Work of the Architect Djo Bourgeois --- by Djo Bourgeois --- Graphic Arts of To-day: The Drawings of John Skeaping --- The Archiepiscopal Seminary at Bamberg --- by Prof. A. Dreidner --- The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Courtauld by J. B. Manson --- Modern British Manufactures: The Royal Doulton Pottery --- Two Exhibitions of Etchings --- The Appreciation of Art: Emotional Significance by Ana M. Berry --- Wood or Metal? --- by Charlotte Perriand --- Contemporary Painting: Tradition in Italy by Prof. Ugo Nebbia --- Costume in the Theatre: Views of an American Designer --- by James Reynolds --- Notes: London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Gablonz, Barcelona, Madrid --- Reviews --- An Auction Causerie: “Seven Millions for Art” --- by A. C. R. Carter --- SUPPLEMENTS Title --- Author --- Page --- “Portrait of a Man” --- by El Greco Frontispiece --- “Poppet” --- by Augustus John --- Design for an Interior --- by Djo Bourgeois --- “Nevermore” --- by Paul Gaugin --- Pottery by Doulton & Co., Ltd. --- Costume Design for Caterina Sforza --- by James Reynolds --- PHOTOGRAPHS, ORIGINALS AND ARTICLES are sent at owner’s risk. All should bear full names and addresses, and should be accompanied by return postage. All articles and notes must be typewritten. PERSONAL ENQUIRIES should be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope. CONTRIBUTORS are urged to submit photographs, in the first instance, rather than originals. SELECTION is made on merit alone. No fees are accepted for the inclusion of work. THE EDITOR CAN ONLY BE SEEN BY APPOINTMENT Telephone: Gerrard 3267-8 Telegrams: Rhombic --- PUBLISHED BY THE STUDIO Ltd., 44 Leicester Sq., London, W.C.2 SUBSCRIPTION RATES HOME 2s. per copy. 28s. per annum, post free. Bound vol. 15s. OVERSEAS British Dominions, India, Countries in Postal Union, 30s. post free. Canada, 26s. post free. Germany (F. A. Brockhaus, 16 Querstr., Leipzig), Mks. 26 post free. France (Librairie D’Art Louis Reynaud, 18 Rue de la Bucherie, Paris 5), Frs. 170 post free. Italy (Galleria Pesaro, Via Manzoni 12a, Milan), L.168 post free. U.S.A. (Published by A. & C. Boni Inc., 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, under the title “Creative Art,”) $7. 50 post free. --- ADVERTISEMENT DEPARTMENT of The Studio, Ltd., 80 Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. ADVERTISEMENT RATES for un-displayed advertisements — 7s. 6d. for 32 words, 1s. for each eight or less beyond. Copy by 1st of month prior to publication. Displayed advertisement rates on application. REPLIES to Box Numbers 1s. extra. NO RESPONSIBILITY accepted for loss of or damage to designs, etc., sent in response to advertisements. --- CONTENTS OF NEXT ISSUE THE ART OF THE BOOK: Recent work of some English Presses. MODERN BRITISH CRAFTSMANSHIP: Jewellery by the Goldsmiths’ and Silver-smiths’ Company, Ltd. CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PAINTING: The water-colours of George Charlton. MODERN GRAPHIC ART: A series of French Drawings. MODERN ARCHITECTURE: Some recent English buildings. THE ETCHED WORK OF W. RICHARD SICKERT, A.R.A. THE APPRECIATION OF ART: The fourth of a series of articles by Miss A. M. Berry, Hon. Org. Secretary of the Arts League of Service. MODERN INTERIOR DECORATION: The work of Basil Ionides.
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PUBLISHERS BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING ESTABLISHED 1760 P. & D. COLNAGHI & CO. "HYLAS AND THE NYMPHS" By HARRY MORLEY Size 7 x 5 inches Original Engraving 60 Proofs at £4 4 0 each Paintings and Drawings by Old and Modern Masters VALUATIONS, RESTORATION, FRAMING, MOUNTING COLLECTIONS BOUGHT 'en bloc' 144, 145, 146 NEW BOND ST., LONDON, W.1 TELEGRAMS: COLNAGHI, WESDO, LONDON. Telephone: MAYFAIR 6356 (3 lines) AD. I
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ART EXHIBITIONS LONDON.—ARLINGTON GALLERY, 22 Old Bond Street, W.1. Oils and Water-colours by Percy des C. Ballance. Open April 9 to 19. BARBIZON HOUSE, 9 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, W.1. Exhibition of Contemporary French Art. Open March 8 for three weeks. BEAUX ARTS GALLERY, 1 Bruton Place, W.1. Crayon Portraits by Helen Bedford. Paintings by Margaret Gere. Engravings and Etchings by younger modern Etchers. Open March 12 to 28. BROOK STREET GALLERY, 14 Brook Street, W.1. Etchings of Game Birds by Robert Denholm. Open March 12 to 30. Paintings and Miniatures of Flowers by Anne Style. Open March 14 to April 6. Landscapes by Lady Bower. Portraits and Figures by Phyllis Heseltine. Landscapes by Mary H. Verey. Open April 8 to 13. Still-Life Paintings by Mrs. Fairbairn. Open April 16 to 30. Lustre Pottery by Alfred H. and Louise Powell. Open April 10 to 29. COLNAGHI, P. & D. AND CO., 144-6 New Bond Street, W.1. Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Allan Gwynne-Jones. Open March 8 to April 6. GIEVES ART GALLERY, 22 Old Bond Street, W.1. Cathcart Art Society. Open March 20 to 26. Scottish and Continental Water-colours by James Watson. Open April 9 to 19. GOUPIL GALLERY, 5 Regent Street, S.W.1. Oil Paintings and Drawings by Gilbert Spencer. Water-colours by David Jones. Open March 7 to 28. LEICESTER GALLERIES, Green Street, W.C.2. Paintings by Henry Lamb. Open March 2 to 28. MANSARD GALLERY, 196 Tottenham Court Road, W.1. Decorative Carvings, Pottery Figures and Colour Prints. Open March 29 to May 4. REDFERN GALLERY, 27 Old Bond Street, W.1. Oils by R. O. Dunlop. Open March 7 to 30. Panels, Lithographs, Drawings by Elsie Henderson. Open April 4 to 27. REID. ALEX. AND LEFÈVRE, LTD., 1A King Street, St. James’s, S.W.1. Paintings by Modigliani. Open March 6 to April 4. R. I. GALLERIES, 195 Piccadilly, W.1. Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours. Open March 25 to May 30. (Continued on page 4) --- ALEX. REID & LEFÈVRE, LTD. THE LEFÈVRE GALLERIES —ALWAYS ON VIEW— Fine Paintings by British and French Modern Masters CEZANNE --- DAUMIER --- PICASSO --- SEURAT --- DEGAS --- MANET --- RENOIR --- UTRILLO --- DERAIN --- MATISSE --- SISLEY --- VAN GOGH --- CAMERON --- FERGUSSON --- McBEY --- PEPLOE --- Also ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY BRITISH MODERN ARTISTS --- 1a KING STREET, ST. JAMES’S, LONDON, S.W. 1 And 117 WEST GEORGE STREET, GLASGOW Telegrams & Cables: “DRAWINGS, LONDON.” Telephone: GERRARD 6384 AD. II
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MESSRS. CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS beg to announce that they will Sell at Auction THE PORTLAND VASE (OR BARBERINI VASE) the property of HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND, K.G., G.C.V.O., P.C. Which for over one hundred years has been exhibited on loan at THE BRITISH MUSEUM On THURSDAY, MAY 2nd, 1929 At their Great Rooms. 8 King Street, St. James's Square, S.W. 1 CATALOGUES MAY BE HAD Telegrams: CHRISTIART, PICCY, LONDON. Telephone: GERRARD 5056 AD. III
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ART EXHIBITIONS—Continued R.W.S. GALLERIES, 5A Pall Mall East, S.W.1. Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours. Open March 23 to May 25. TOOTH, ARTHUR AND SONS, LTD., 155 New Bond Street, W.1. The Seven and Five Society. Open March 6 to 28. TWENTY-ONE GALLERY, 15 Mill Street, W.1. Modern Etchings and Lithographs. Open during February. Etchings and Drawings by Paul Drury, A.R.E. Open March 18 to April 6. Senefelder Club. Exhibition of Lithographs. Open April 8 to 28. WALKER’S GALLERIES, 118 New Bond Street, W.1. Water-colours by Samuel Lucas (died, 1865). Open March 7 to 27. --- BIRMINGHAM.—ROYAL BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY OF ARTISTS. Spring Exhibition. Open April 11 to May 25. BRADFORD.—CARTWRIGHT MEMORIAL HALL. 36th Spring Exhibition of Modern British Paintings and Sculpture. Open March 2 to May 5. DUBLIN.—ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY. Annual Exhibition. Open April 8 to May 25. EDINBURGH.—ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY. 103rd Annual Exhibition. Receiving day, March 22. Open April 20 to August 24. LIVERPOOL.—WALKER ART GALLERY. British Artists’ Exhibition. Open during March and April. PRESTON.—HARRIS ART GALLERY. Fourth Annual Spring Exhibition of Lancashire Artists. Open March 28 to May 4. PARIS.—GALERIES GEORGES PETIT, 8 rue de Sèze. Margareth Darbour : Coulon : Guy Dezannois : B. de Bonnechose : J. J. Dufour. Open March 16 to 30. Simonidy. Open March 11 to 30. GRAND PALAIS, Champs Elysées. Spring Salon. COMPETITIONS.—CONSUL GENERAL FOR ECUADOR, 23 College Hill, Cannon Street, E.C.4, will supply particulars of a Competition for a Monument to Bolivar, to be set up in Quito. Designs must reach the Legation of Ecuador, 91 Avenue Wagram. Paris by March 31. NOTE.—The Editor will be pleased to receive particulars of any Art Exhibitions, Competitions, Lectures and other announcements likely to be of interest to readers, which should reach him by the 1st of the month of publication (i.e., the month previous to that named on the cover). --- Approved “One” Man Shows HELD AT The Brook Street Art Gallery, Ltd. 14 BROOK STREET, W. (Three doors from New Bond Street) --- Tunbridge Wells Arts & Crafts Society, 1929. An Exhibition will be held in the Corn Exchange from October 17th to 23rd. of Oil Paintings, Water-Colours, Black and White, Architectural Design, Photography, Needlework, Weaving, Lace, Carving, Modelling, Bookbinding, Enamels, Jewellery, Metal Work, Pottery, etc. Particulars from Mrs. C. TATTERSHALL DODD, Grosvenor Lodge Studio, Tunbridge Wells. --- OMAR RAMSDEN ST. DUNSTANS SEYMOUR PLACE :: S.W. 10 FOR SILVER OF DISTINCTION 1929 Telephone: KENSINGTON 6629 --- BRONZE FOUNDERS Sculptors’ works are faithfully reproduced by sand or cire perdue process at minimum cost. Colossal statues, statuettes, relief panels and tablets. THE MORRIS - SINGER ART BRONZE FOUNDRY Morris House, Rochester Row, WESTMINSTER, S.W.1 Telephone: Victoria 0671 (5 lines) --- THE LEICESTER GALLERIES, LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON EXHIBITIONS OF PICTURES BY ETHELBERT WHITE & E. J. BURRA AD. IV
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--- The Customs House, King’s Lynn. --- An Original ‘Drypoint’, by ALFRED R. BLUNDELL Plate size, 9 x 9½, Edition 75. Price - £2 2 0, Mounted. Post free direct from Artist— Cavenham Mill, Bury St. Edmund’s - Suffolk --- “PERSEUS” New Line Engraving, 8½ by 8½ by WILLIAM E. C. MORGAN (Prix de Rome, 1924) 70 signed proofs - £5/5,0 each --- BEAUX ARTS GALLERY BRUTON PLACE - LONDON, W.1 Publishers of Etched Works by MORGAN, SKEAPING and KEITH Illustrated Catalogue on application --- Spanish Ox Drivers --- New Drypoint by FRANCIS DODD, A.R.A. JAMES CONNELL & SONS, LTD. 47 OLD BOND STREET :: LONDON, W 1 and at 75 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow Publishers of Etchings and Drypoints by H. RUSHBURY, A.R.A. FRANCIS DODD, A.R.A. S. TUSHINGHAM --- Wm. B. PATERSON --- A Girl’s Head (E.) By A. E. JOHN, R.A. C.D.65 --- OLD AND MODERN PICTURES AND DRAWINGS ETCHINGS BY AUG. E. JOHN, R.A., and other Artists. 5 OLD BOND ST., LONDON, W.1 Cables : Velasquez, Piccy, London. Tel.: Regent 0949 AD. V ---
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THE NEW STUDIO GALLERY 217 KNIGHTSBRIDGE Telephone: KENSINGTON 7280 (Director: AMELIA DEFRIES, Hon. Adviser of The Roerich Museum, New York) Agent for J. M. Gol’s Hand-blown and Enamelled Glass. This new and beautiful gallery will open on APRIL 9th with an EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTINGS entitled: HYDE PARK IN THE NIGHT by YOSHIO MARKINO The Exhibition will remain open during the month of April --- Applied Arts & Handcrafts Exhibition ROYAL HORTICULTURAL HALL The dates of this year’s Exhibition are from November 26th until December 6th. Full particulars can be obtained from the Organisers, 26 Eastcastle Street, London, W.1. THE SALON CLUB (For Artists and Art Lovers) Offers a Spacious and Centrally Situated EXHIBITION GALLERY to Individual Artists and Societies Terms from—The Secretary, Salon Club, 2a Hall Street, Oxford Street, MANCHESTER. Would you like to see “The Studio” printed? If so, visit Stands 8D and 9C at the Eighth International Printing and Allied Trades Exhibition at Olympia, April 11-25, 1929 --- By Appointment to H.M. King George V. Trade Mark Factory founded by Queen Juliane Marie of Denmark 1779 ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN Tiger by LAURITZ JENSEN, 5 ins. x 12 ins. £t 15 0. London Depot: 2, Old Bond Street, W.1 AD VII
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A.W. FABER "CASTELL" PENCILS FOR THE RUSH JOB Only when you are working under pressure do you fully realise the supreme aptitude of "Castell" pencils for slick work. Made in 16 degrees from 6B to 8H, each is right for its particular job. Price 6d. each. 5/3d. a dozen. For Colour work there are 64 shades of "Castell" Polychromos—all permanent—4d. each. 3/9d. per dozen. Sold by Stationers, Artists' Colourmen, etc. everywhere. 'Polychromos' and the Photograph With the A. W. Faber Artists' Cabinet No. 9275, the technique of colouring photographs is amazingly simplified, and the results are faultless. Ask your Stationer or Artists' Colourman about it, or write for descriptive leaflet. A. W. FABER 13 & 14 CAMOMILE STREET LONDON E.C.3 --- "Specialising in—" This is the age of the specialist. We have no time in this busy world of ours for the "Jack-of-all-trades." We look to the specialist for the finest his trade can produce, and that is why "Clyde" papers have come to be recognised as the finest coated papers obtainable. Its makers in Scotland are specialists. They have confined themselves for thirty years to the manufacture of coated papers of all descriptions, and "Clyde" papers are the direct outcome of patient experiment during the whole of that time. "Clyde" papers are used throughout the world wherever "only the best" is good enough. CLYDE PAPER CO., LTD. RUTHERGLEN - SCOTLAND The successive issues of this publication are printed on a "Clyde" art paper. AGENTS LONDON: Johnston, Horsburgh & Co., 20/21 Queenhithe, E.C.4 SCOTLAND: Strathie, Harrington & Co., 30 St. Andrew Square EDINBURGH Wholesale only PROVINCES: Percy Westbrook & Co. 301/4 Corn Exchange Buildings, Cathedral Street, MANCHESTER NORTHERN IRELAND & FREE STATE: R. Clapperton, 89 Moyne Road, Rathmines, DUBLIN AD. VIII
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LEFRANC PARIS 15. RUE de la VILLE L’ÉVÊQUE R C SEINE 194649 Artists’ OIL AND WATER COLOURS Pastel - Crayons (LEFRANC) Gouache Colours for ART DECORATION J. C. Viberts Varnishes for MIXING, RE-TOUCHING and VARNISHING Etching Requisites Varnish Lamour for ETCHING GROUNDS Artists’ Brushes Canvas, Papers, etc. For Catalogue & full Particulars apply: 9 DRURY LANE LONDON W.C.2 COLOURS AND VARNISHES --- THE NATIONAL RADIO EXHIBITION NEW HALL, OLYMPIA September 23rd to October 3rd, 1929 OPEN POSTER COMPETITION OBJECT.—The object of the Competition is to obtain a design for a poster to advertise The National Radio Exhibition, to be held in the New Hall, Olympia, from September 23rd to October 3rd, 1929. CONDITIONS. 1. Sketches (rough, in colour) must be full size upright (Double Crown 30 ins. x 20 ins.) and must be treated with a view to reproduction by lithography in not more than 9 colours and reduction for use as poster stamps (2½ ins. x 1½ ins.). 2. Designs, which must be applicable to radio, should incorporate the following wording:— “The National Radio Exhibition, Olympia (New Hall), September 23rd to October 3rd, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Admission 1/6 daily. (Tuesday, September 24th, up to 5 p.m., 2/6).” 3. Sketches must be sent to the Secretary, The Radio Manufacturers’ Association, Astor House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2, so as to reach him not later than the 31st May, 1929. 4. Sketches will be judged by a Committee to be appointed by the R.M.A., whose decision shall be final and binding on all competitors. 5. Six prizes will be awarded as follows:— 1st Prize, £50; 2nd Prize, £25; 3rd Prize, £10; 4th, 5th and 6th Prizes, £5 each. The names of the Prize Winners will be published in the “Radio Times.” 6. Entrants must write their names and addresses plainly on the backs of their sketches. 7. Entrants may send more than one sketch if they so desire. 8. The prize-winning sketches and the copyright in same shall be the property of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association. 9. Prize-winning and other selected sketches will be exhibited at the National Radio Exhibition to be held at Olympia from September 23rd to October 3rd, 1929. 10. The Radio Manufacturers’ Association shall not be bound to make use of the prize-winning or any of the sketches submitted. 11. No sketch will be returned unless the entrant remits with the sketch sufficient to cover cost of return postage. Sketches not claimed before December 31st 1929, will be destroyed. 12. Entrants, by submitting sketches for the Competition, bind themselves to abide by the Conditions of the Competition. Organised by The Radio Manufacturers’ Association Astor House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2 AD. IX
