His pastels are much sought, but his dry-points have gained for him celebrity.
The name of Degas, thepastels of Degas, the miraculous draughtsmanship of Degas created an imponderable fluid which still permeates Paris.
Antique chairs of various kinds stood around in disorder, while for sole adornment, along the walls, hung with an old salon Empire paper of a rose pattern, were nailed pastels of flowers of strange coloring dimly visible.
The comparative slightness and rapidity of execution of his drawings and pastels enabled him to register many inventions and observations that we must otherwise have missed, and many of these are of the highest value.
Since 1884 this artist has taught drawing in the Municipal School for Girls in Naples, and has executed many portraits in oil, as well as numerous pastels and water-colors.
Mrs. Jopling's pastels are of an unusual quality, delicate, strong, and brilliant.
The pastels were sensational, Whistler was clever with a sort of transatlantic impudence.
These little journeys were more costly and difficult then than now, and there are no plates except of the Lido and the Murano Glass-Furnace, and no pastels except one or two on the Lido.
He had one room, the windows looking over the Lagoon, and from them the etchings and pastels of the Riva and the Lagoon were made.
The closing of the school in Paris occupied and worried him, and he was arranging for a show of pastels and prints at the Luxembourg.
In an exhibition of oil paintings and pastels by Whistler held in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in March 1910, a painting was shown entitled Sketch of Mr. Whistler.
The pastels have been praised with the inconsequence characteristic of so much praise of his work.
Suggestions were in the pastels of figures, for which he found the perfect model in London.
About 1870 I began to get such of his etchings as I could, and somewhere early in the eighties I became the fortunate possessor of some thirty or forty drawings and pastels through the Dowdeswells.
A number of people showed their belief in the pastels by buying them, and the exhibition was a success financially.
A few were in oil, a few in pencil, but the larger number were pastels and water-colours.
Nothing in Whistler's life is more astonishing than the praise and blame raised by the Venetian pastels on their exhibition in London.
One of his pastels has remained typical, owing to the scandal caused by it: he represents a dance-scene at the Opera, seen from the orchestra.
He then exhibited decorative pictures, pastels and drawings, which placed him in the first rank.
She is a pastellist of note, and some of her pastels are as good as Manet's and Degas's, so far as broad execution and brilliancy and delicacy of tones are concerned.
He has succeeded in realising on paper by means of lithography, the pastels and gouache drawings in which his admirable colourist's fancy mixed the most difficult shades.
The painter notices beauty, but he looks for it particularly in the profound characterisation of the types which he studies, and his pastels have the massiveness and the sombre style of bronze.
Atmospheric envelopes slowly en route to the dead letter office of dream pastels demand his whole attention.
Behind his intolerable pastels and nuances and frock coats and superficial pose the man actually had ideas; it was a pity they showed so seldom.
His cosmos bulged with ego of such density that he and his pastels and nocturnes were crowded together in it indistinguishably.
His pastels and etchings, his drawings in chalk, pencil, and charcoal, are astonishing through their eminent delicacy of technique.
Besides the two pastels I made of Her Majesty, I did two others of Prince Ferdinand's family.
His water-colours andpastels were no less successful than the earlier illustrations in pen and ink.
The sun slipped behind radiant clouds, clouds which shifted and softened, and tinted and toned through the pastelsinto the neutrals.
The somber clouds of his moods seemed destined to be transformed into delicate pastels by the promises of love.
It was solely in pastels and water colours, never in oils.
Chardin and Watteau, who crosshatched and stippled pure colours in their pastels and water colours, were really the forerunners of impressionism.
Art would be too austere if it were not for the makers of etchings and lithographs, of pastels and water-colours.
His lithographs and pastels of nudes seem largely experimental.
An exhibition of fifty-three pastels at the Fine Art Society in Bond St., London.
A few touches with sky tinted pastels produced a remarkable effect.
He was busy with minor, but not less interesting, problems and devoted most of his time to etchings, pastels and lithographs.
In the eighties he devoted more time to his etchings, pastels and water colours than to larger paintings.
His figures in pastels are mostly young girls, semi-nude or in quaintly coloured robes, frequently in pink and red against vague backgrounds.
She has made her position by means of pastels which, while preserving their natural charm, have all the solidity of oil-paintings.
And after the general outcry which followed this suggestion, the conversation drifted back to the old discussion of the autumn shows, the pastels at the Grosvenor, and the most recent additions to the National Gallery.
Sprigs o' Mint (New York, 1906), was an attractive little volume of pastels in prose and verse.
English pictures have no longer anything heavy or oily, but they likewise show nothing of the manipulation of the brush, rather resembling large water-colours, perhaps evenpastels or wax-painting.
Six pastels by Henry Muhrman and Frank Mura's charcoal drawings are the leaders here, and the drawings generally are the best things among the many oils and watercolours, which were mostly made for purposes of illustration.
Mr. Hale's pastels are no less enchanting in his outdoor compositions in many soft greens - a difficult colour to deal with.
Birge Harrison is disappointing in two pastels which seem too chromo-like, too mechanical, to carry their point.
I was half tempted to ask Willy to fill my rye glass withpastels again, but it seemed an imposition at the moment.
He pulled out a layout pad, opened his pastels and arranged them deliberately beside it.
Looking apologetically at my ogle he picked up the pastels again and said, "Sorry.
In 1868 he had shown his first study of a dancer, and in numerous pastels he proclaimed himself the painter of the ballet, representing its figurantes in every attitude with more constant aim at truth than grace.
Liotard, an enamel of great value, and fifteen pastels by the Genevese painter, J.
A Superior Person has entered the West Gallery, accompanied by a Responsive Lady, who has already grasped the fact that a taste for Pastels is the sure sign of a superior nature.
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