| (....) Mr. Girieud, in another sense, is like Mr. Favory, a curious example of this return without counterweight to the old masters: but this one, painting a long young naked woman, standing, a little dry think only of the lessons of the Italian 15th century and relentlessly remake us of the Mantegna. It doesn't matter, per se. What would become of it, is if this need to lean on the classics as on columns, only masked a fundamental incapacity to be oneself. Not going so far as to conclude, let us say that so far, the restorative effort of Mr. Favory as of Mr. Girieud is extremely honorable and even sympathetic; (.... ) |