COLLECTION OF FRENCH AND BELGIAN ART

Abstract

during the month of October, represent the major portion of the Exhibition of French and Belgian Art from the Panama-Pacific Exposition. These works were collected under the personal direction of Monsieur Jean Guifïrey, Conservateur au Louvre, Paris. Great difficulty was experienced in getting together a representative xhibition, as war had been declared, the artists were at the front and where it was impossible to obtain permission, studios were broken into and the pictures taken. However, the exhibition as a whole gives a very fair idea of contemporary artistic activity and achievement in France and Belgium. The Exhibition is arranged to excellent effect, in six galleries of the Museum. Gallery VI. is, however, the lodestone. In it are admirably shown a series of paintings of India, in gouache, by Albert Besnard, which are marvels of line and colour, for Besnard is preeminently a colourist, well known for his production of oriental character, subjects inspired by journeys to Algeria and India, and for his wonderful decorative paintings and subjects exhibiting effects of