. International studio. arles Rappaport of the Autumn salonof 1920, resuming in his solid, flat-footed, shrewd-eyed person, the entire Internationale. The portraits in the Nationals des Beaux Artsshow how entertaining and suggestive portraituremay be by the decorative solution. The first viewof the Baron Franchetti gives the impressionthat it is washed out, the general harmony isin so pale a key. But you look again and yousoon feel it is nothing of the sort. It vibrates,grows richer, as you contemplate it. An elderlystout man sits astride a small chair, its back be-tween his legs. He wears a s
. International studio. arles Rappaport of the Autumn salonof 1920, resuming in his solid, flat-footed, shrewd-eyed person, the entire Internationale. The portraits in the Nationals des Beaux Artsshow how entertaining and suggestive portraituremay be by the decorative solution. The first viewof the Baron Franchetti gives the impressionthat it is washed out, the general harmony isin so pale a key. But you look again and yousoon feel it is nothing of the sort. It vibrates,grows richer, as you contemplate it. An elderlystout man sits astride a small chair, its back be-tween his legs. He wears a soft yellowish grey felthat from underneath which flows thin curly stringsof fawn colored hair, as silky in texture as a the button hole of the grey coat is a red rose witha green leaf and on the hand a yellow high lightflashes from a ring. The face is singular and veryEuropean with its melancholy eyes and expressionof resigned bitterness not unallied to a completematerial comfort and leisure. It is accented on. MADAME Bl KEES \ \N DONG! N the side of the nose with strong emerald shadowsput on with a loaded brush in long peremptorystrokes. This acid hue is balanced by orange andred and the figure is relieved against a cloudygrey-blue background, which is intended, so theartist tells me, to give the feeling of the discon-tented mentality of the sitter. We perceive themovement of regret in his curious eyes, the burdenof reminiscence, the chill of acknowledged by a certain secret of life that seems topromise revelation, we keep returning. The Pierre Lafitte in spite of its out-dooratmosphere, with the trees of the Bois for back-ground, is much less lyrical than its cold blacks and greys in contrast to the fleshlighted with strong blues, greens, reds, give us aspruce nervous personality, in which will andintellect predominate—a quite American make-up. The climax of the painting is in the bla<with white hair-stripes to match the wa
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