DLA096-0046  Transcription

Evening Telegraph and Post, 28 February 1925

ART EXHIBITION IN SANDEMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY.

WORK OF FAMOUS PAINTERS TO BE SEEN IN PERTH.

Yesterday there was opened in the Sandeman Public Library, Perth, an exhibition of pictures which is without doubt the finest ever seen in the city.

Many eminent artists have contributed work, and the committee is to be congratulated in the high standard of excellence which has been maintained throughout. The exhibition, though naturally on a smaller scale, easily holds its own with any of the large provincial shows.

The works have been admirably hung, and the Hanging Committee—Messrs. Hay, Robertson, Brough, Fraser, Nisbet, Steel, Sellars, and Ramsay—have been conspicuously successful in the avoidance of jarring effects.

Much of the success of the exhibition is due to Mr. Robert Brough, who has been untiring in his efforts to place Perth on a level with the important Scottish art centres, and in this respect it is interesting to notice that he has given tangible evidence of his work of his interest in his loans to the exhibition of pictures which proclaim his excellent judgment and taste as a connoisseur.

De Laszlo Portrait.

Fewer loan pictures are on view than on former occasions but the fifteen comprising this section are indeed gems which greatly enhance the exhibition.

The place of honour has been given to the portrait of Lady Forteviot by P. de Laszlo [5199], and shows a masterly handling of subtle half-tone and a successful harmony of colour.

The pictures surrounding this work have been well chosen, each adding to the quality of its neighbours. In this connection, the small picture immediately below “Lady Forteviot,” entitled “Peaches,” by Courbet, needs no comment.

Lord Provost of Perth.

Two other pictures by De Laszlo are “The Hon. John Dewar, Lord Provost of Perth” [5273] and “Mrs. J. M. Fraser of Invermay [4727].” The former is a wonderful piece of technical skill, painted with evident care, and is undoubtedly an excellent likeness. As a work of art, however, the latter is even more successful. Although handled with the same ease, it has a wonderful quality which one rarely associates with from direct painting. The public of Perth is indeed fortunate in having an opportunity of studying three such examples of this painter’s work.

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