Salon des HumoristesAuthor(s): A. E. GallatinSource: Art and Progress, Vol. 5, No. 5 (Mar., 1914), pp. 175-177Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20561112 .

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SALON DES HUMORISTES* BY A. E. GALLATIN

SEARCHING out the occasional painting of distinction at the two

Salons in Paris each spring, from among an interminable parade of blatant can vases, is apt to become tedious. But how very different and how refreshing is the show over at the Palais de Glace,

the descendants of Boucher, Watteau and poor Frago. They are vital and compelling.

New York should therefore congratu late herself on having had a little Salon des Humoristes of her own: the group of drawings by members of this society

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for it is there, where all Paris has been skating during the winter, that the ami able members of the Salon des Humor istes hold sway. What an entrancing and what a gay

exhibition this always is! These en gaging drawings, paintings and stat uettes, so audacious and so alive, are not unworthy offsprings of the brains of

on view during January in the gallery of the MNuseum of French Art was quite like a breath of Paris in the spring.

The present collection boasted exam ples of the work of Prej elan, Fabiano, (Gerbault, Touraine-names very famil iar to those that see the French humor ous , ournals. These artists are the re corders par excellence of the most chic

*This note was originally published in the Bulletin of the Museum of French Art for which it was written. It is here republished for the benefit of a wider circle of art lovers and readers, through the courtesy of the Museum and the Author. THE EDITOR.

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176 ART AND PROGRESS

-types of the present-day Parisienne. Delightfully graceful drawings and exe dcuted with a line full of precision, they are also documents for the future his torian. The most reliable history of a countrv is written by her caricaturists

Bac, Willette and Faivre-all three of whom were represented. How very charming, too, was the crayon drawing of a young girl by Louis Vallet. One admired in addition the drawings by the famous Caran d'Ache, the dogs of Ben

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and her cartoonists, and one day these drawings will be consulted by those de siring a glimpse at the true manners, morals and modes of the present day, even as we already turn for information concerning the Victorian era to the pages decorated by Keene and Du Maurier.

Delightful portraits of the Parisienne were also to be found in the designs of

j amin Rabier, the children of Mirande. With Forain, Ibels, Steinlen and

Raffadli, a more serious note has been struck. Besides being draughtsmen of great ability, these men display a deep insight into human nature. It has been said that there is such a thing as "Im pressionism of line," and certainly the line of Forain suggests movement. It is as powerful and telling a line and as

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PAINTINGS BY TURNER AND GAINSBOROUGH 177

full of energy as exists in art. Forain's political cartoons and his etchings, made as a general rule in some court-room, are brilliantly clever and pregnant with characterization; his paintings are not killed by being placed in proximity with those of the great Daumier. Ibels and Raffaelli are also realists, who have studied many of the same types that have been immortalized by Steinlen; the in habitants of Montmartre, the humble toil

ers of Paris and the vagabonds; in them we find the same truthfulness that is apparent in Millet's peasants. In Stein len's tragic portraits of the various types which are to be found in the re gion of the fortifications we see all the misery and squalor of these quarters de picted in a masterly manner. And in all Steinlen's studies of Bohemians, vaga bonds and the petite bourgeoisie, one sees only tenderness and sympathy.

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JN the Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1 there was exhibited for a charitable purpose during the month of January, a notable collection of paintings by Turner and Gainsborough, lent by private col lectors. This exhibition comprised no less than seven paintings by Turner and twenty-eiglht by Gainsborouglh, among

which were those reproduced on this and the following pages.

Sulch exhibitions are indicative of the present wealth of this country in works of art by the great masters. They also give token of the generosity of American collectors and their willingness to share their possessions with others.

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