INTERNATIONAL STUDIO was associated with THE CONNOISSEUR a magazine for collectors, published August, 1928.  This magazine catered to those who enjoyed art, antiques, decorating, and architecture.  It was and is a source for research on all of these subjects, as can be seen from the numerous articles and illustrations listed below.  It also contains many pages of advertisements, some of which are full-page color ads.  Some of the ads for art galleries are so well done that they are almost as valuable as the articles themselves.  This issue is in very good condition for a magazine of this age.  The binding is tight, and the pages are clean.  Additional pictures are available upon request, please send your e-mail address.  This issue contains 88 pages.

ARTICLES:

SEEN IN THE GALLERIES - ILLUSTRATIONS

            A SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF MODERN FRENCH SILVERWARE

            CHARMING “BONHEUR-DU-JOUR”, ESSENTIALLY LOUIS XVI STYLE

            THE ESSENCE OF THE BAROQUE - A SPANISH VARGUENO, C-1650

AMUSING THREE-PANEL SCREEN MADE FROM THE CARTOON OF A EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SOHO TAPESTRY, THE SUBJECT AND TREATMENT ARE OBVIOUSLY EXAMPLES OF THE ORIENTAL INFLUENCE THAT WAS SWEEPING EUROPE

            AN ALASKAN TOM-TOM

THREE SMALL SILVER FRAMES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DESIGNED AFTER ROCOCO MIRRORS, LEAVES, SHELLS, AND BROKEN SCROLLWORK ARE ADMIRABLY SUITED TO TREATMENT IN SILVER WITH ITS ENHANCED CHIAROSCURO EFFECT

            “ HEAD OF BOY” BY GEORGE DE FOREST BRUSH

AUGUSTE RENOIR AND THE CULT FOR BEAUTY - by Royal Cortissoz.  Renoir boundless enthusiasm for life and art were expressed with the inspired vision of a poet in the paintings of his prime.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

RENOIR HAS CONTRASTED THE REPOSE OF THE MOTHER WITH THE IRREPRESSIBLE ANIMATION OF THE CHILDREN IN HIS DELIGHTFUL PAINTING OF THE FAMILY OF THE FRENCH PUBLISHER, GEORGES CHARPENTIER, SIGNED ‘78

PAINTED IN HIS YOUTH, THE LITTLE FIGURE OF THE “DANSEUSE” DISPLAYS RENOIR’S PRODIGIOUS AND STILL ENCHANTED TALENT; HE SEES IN HER THE GLAMOR OF THE STAGE BUT NONE OF ITS TAWDRINESS

RENOIR’S MOULIN ROUGE FRIENDS ARE IN “SORTIE DU CONSERVATOIRE”

“LA LOGE,” PAINTED IN 1870, IS AN EVIDENCE OF RENOIR’S ABILITY TO GIVE TO THE COMMONPLACE A MAGIC WHICH NEITHER BANALITY OF SUBJECT NOR THE EXAGGERATED COSTUME OF THE ‘SEVENTIES COULD OBSCURE

“AU CONCERT,” A CHARMING GLIMPSE OF “LA VIE MONDAINE,” WAS PAINTED IN 1880, IT OFFERS AN EXAMPLE OF RENOIR’S SUPERB USE OF WHITE, THIS PAINTING HAS RECENTLY BEEN PURCHASED BY A PRIVATE COLLECTION (See picture)

EARLY HORIZONTAL OR TABLE CLOCKS - by Edward Wenham.  Following the invention of the mainspring, clocks became smaller, an early form of the portable timepiece being the horizontal clock.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

            A QUAINT TABLE ON WHICH THE DOG’S EYES MOVE

A GERMAN RENAISSANCE CLOCK (LEFT) HAS BOTH ROMAN AND ARABIC NUMERALS AROUND THE DIAL; AT THE RIGHT IS A GERMAN CLOCK ABOUT 1600 WITH THE FIGURE OF A MAN WHO POINTS TO THE HOUR WITH HIS SWORD

THIS INTERESTING TABLE CLOCK WAS MADE FOR RUDOLF II ABOUT 1580 BY HANS SCHLOTT OF AUGSBURG

            THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY GERMAN RENAISSANCE TABLE CLOCK AT THE LEFT HAS A STRIKING MOVEMENT; IN THE CENTRE IS SHOWN A TWENTY-FOUR HOUR STRIKING CLOCK OF GERMAN MANUFACTURE; AT RIGHT, A DUTCH CLOCK WITH CALENDAR OF DAYS, MONTHS AND SEASONS

THE FACE OF A GERMAN CARRIAGE CLOCK, CIRCA 1560, AT THE LEFT, IN THE CENTRE, AN ORMOLU TABLE CLOCK WITH TWO ELABORATELY WROUGHT HANDS; ABOUT 1775, AT THE RIGHT IS SEEN THE BACK OF A FRENCH CARRIAGE CLOCK ABOUT 1630 SHOWING FLORAL DESIGN.

SPANISH-AMERICAN COLONIAL SILVER - by John Walker Harrington.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

            ANIMAL MASK ON A “BRASERO”

A “BRASERO” FROM THE RAMIREZ COLLECTION, THE FACE OF THE SUN-GOD IS AN ANCIENT NATIVE SYMBOL WHILE THE TYPE OF LEAF-SCROLL PATTERN IS A SPANISH CONTRIBUTION; CIRCA 1650

AN ESPECIALLY HANDSOME SILVER TRAY, MADE IN PERU ABOUT 1750, THE NATIVE CRAFTSMAN HAS INTERPRETED THE FAMILIAR SPANISH SCALLOP SHELL MOTIF IN A HIGHLY ORIGINAL MANNER

            CHIMU GOLD WORK OF PRE-SPANISH TYPE

            “MATE” POT FROM PERU, CIRCA 1750

            POT FOR “MATE” A KIND OF TEA

SILVER DISH FROM LIME SHOWING THE HIGHLY DEVELOPED PERUVIAN COLONIAL STYLE

THE POPULAR ANIMAL MASK HANDLES THAT RESEMBLE BOTH LION AND PUMA

            SILVER PLATTER OF PERUVIAN ORIGIN

            SILVER PITCHER MODELED AFTER AN ANCIENT POTTERY DESIGN

            REPOUSSE SILVER “BRASERO,” CIRCA 1700, MADE IN PERU

            “THE LEMOLLINI FAMILY” BY SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK

THE CATTANEO-LAMELLINI VAN DYCK’S - by Lelia Wittler

ILLUSTRATIONS:

            “THE LOMELLINI FAMILY” PAINTED IN 1621 – COLOR PLATE (See picture)

“MARCHESA GIOVANNA CATTANEO,” PAINTED BY VAN DICK IN 1625

            “THE LAMELLINI FAMILY”

            “THE MARCHESA ELENA GRIMALDI CATTANEO,”

            THE MARCHESE GIOVANI BATTISTA CATTANEO

            MRS. GIOVANI BATTISTA CATTANEO

            ELENA GRIMALDI CATTANEO CHILDRENS:

                        CLELIA CATTANEO

                        FILIPPO CATTANEO

“FADED MAHOGANY,” A RIVAL OF WALNUT - By Celia Woodward.  Mahogany which the sunlight has turned as light in color as walnut, or even satinwood, has created a new category of Antique furniture.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

A MOHAGANY KNEE-HOLE DESK WHICH HAS FADED A LIGHTER COLOR THAN THE WALNUT CHAIR BESIDE IT

            A MAHOGANY CHEST IN THE FRENCH MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPENDALE (See picture)

            HAPPLEWHITE MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE, THE TOP AS PALE AS PINE

            TABLE OF MAHOGANY AND THE STOOL IS OF WALNUT

            A SUPERB MAHOGANY BOOK-CASE MELLOWED TO A SOFT GOLDEN-BROWN COLOR

            MAHOGANY LIKE OLD IVORY IN COLOR

            SHERATON SIDEBOARD

            WHITE MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE

ALPHONSE LEGROS COMES INTO HIS OWN - By Frank E. Washburn Freund

ILLUSTRATIONS:

            THE “CARDINAL MANNING” IS ONE OF LEGROS’S FINEST PORTRAITS

            “DEATH AND THE WOODCUTTER”

            LEGROS’S FIR TREES

            “THE DEATH OF ST. FRANCIS”

            “THE REAPER REST”

            “THE RIVER BANK”

NOTES OF THE MONTH

ILLUSTRATIONS:

            A CONTEMPORARY PORTRAIT BUST OF HENRY OF NAVARRE

            A NEWLY DISCOVERED STUART – PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON

            GIRANDOLE

            EQUESTRIAN BRONZE OF PIZARRO, BY CHARLES CARY RUMSEY

            HEAD OF ENAMELLED TERRA-COTTA BY MIKA MIKOUN

            PORTRAIT OF DOROTHEA, LADY EDEN, BY THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH

            PORTRAIT OF PIETER VAN DER MORSCH PAINTED BY FRANS HALS

             A CRIVELLI  

            HEXAGONAL PAINTING OF THE CRUCIFIXION

            HOUDON’S HEAD OF A BOY

            CONTESSA CHIERICATI OF PERUGIA BY JOHN SINGER SARGENT

            “THE GARDEN OF LOVE”

NOTES FROM ABOARD - By Frank Rutter

ILLUSTRATIONS:

            A FAMOUS “LEDA AND THE SWAN” IN MARBLE

            “THOMAS CRATHORNE AND HIS WIFE ISOBEL,” BY FRANCIS COTES

            RAEBURN’S “MARQUESS OF HASTINGS”

            CHIPPENDALE SECRETARY

            A FINE ADAM DOORWAY NOW IN THE BOSTON MUSEUM (See picture)

A SHELF OF NEW BOOKS

FLORIDA ARCHITECTURE OF ADDISON MIZNER By Curtis Patterson.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

            THE VILLA COSDEN

FRENCH ART IN AMERICAN COLLECTION, by Robert Allerton Parker

ILLUSTRATIONS:  

VAN GOGH’S “L’ARLESIENNE”

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