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Title: International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York. John Lane Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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s felt drawn towards sunny lands, so he setoff for Morocco, whence he returned after someeight months, bringing with him a number of picturesof fresh scenes, painted in a new manner. Theseincluded The Young Riffan Fisherman and TheSeagulls Nest, two Eastern idylls, full of poeticalfeeling, observed in the twilight from the terrace ofhis studio at Tangier. A Snake - Charmer ofTangier, which is among our reproductions, waspainted during this sojourn. It was on returning from these travels in landsof sunshine that Emile Wauters resumed his work(never again to abandon it) as a portrait-painter,a branch of art which he had previously followedwith success, and in which he is to-day recognisedas a master. At the 1898 Paris Exhibition, at which Sargent(for whose work Emile \\auters has the sincerestadmiration, owing to its sincerity, its probity, itsartistic novelty, and the breadth of its facture,so simply expressed) obtained a grand prix withhis fine portrait of Mrs. White, Wauters was also
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A SNAKK-CHARMKR OF TANCIIIIK (In the Colliction of Col. Thys) BY EMILK WAUTERS 297 Emile IVauters awarded one for his no less striking portrait ofMine, de Somzee, the wife of the celebrated Belgiancollector. This portrait has been exhibited all overEurope, and has everywhere been praised andadmired. The medaille dhonneur of the BerlinSalon was unanimously awarded the artist on thepicture being shown there. The French Presswas lavish in its praises. Cest un portrait,wrote Paul Mantz in Le Temps, que Iecolefran^aise envie a Iecole beige . . . ; andEdmond About opened a most flattering article inthe Siecle with these words : Monsieur Wautersjouit dune belle renomme non seulement enBelgique, mais en France. Cependant, je ne saissi son talent nest pas superieur a sa reputation.When President Carnot visited the Belgian section,on the opening day of the Paris Exhibition, hestopped before the portrait, and a little incidentthen occurred which the painter rightly trea-sures in his memory. Adva

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