| I'm coming back from the Salon d'Automne. Faithful to my principle I will only talk to you about the paintings I love. (...) The capital piece of the Salon seems to me to be Praise of the nude Beauty, of Mr. Pierre Girieud. This is what the Italian Italians of old called a Flesh Poem. A woman's body; as a background, a hanging; in an angle, at the edge of a window discovering a luminous landscape, the painter is leaning on his chair and watching his work. He has a sense of composition: remember the Provençal Afternoon, the Adoration of the Magi; it is a portrait painter as it exists only very little: remember the portraits of Duhamel, Rohozinsky and his own. He finishes for the Temptation of St. Anthony, a series of watercolors and drawings that will reveal an unknown side of his talent.
This Temptation is part of the Flaubert edition prepared by San Andrea and Marcerou. It will include 12 volumes that will be illustrated by 125 original drawings, watercolors and woods of: Antoine Bourdelle, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Georges Dufrenoy, Pierre Girieud, Pierre Laprade, Alfred Lombard, Bernard Naudin, Achille Ouvre, X. Roussel, Felix Valloton. The bandages, lamp ends, initials will be engraved by A. Ouvré. |