Not many ai' London's present day artists gave been the subject of his penciul—Sir Henry Irving and Sir Squire Bancroft are more of the generation of his Knglish Pant Paris! Tout Paris," he oilery. says, with a smile. And this. is true to suck an extent that you are not really a well-known Parisien or Pamsienne until you have been caricatured by "Sem."
Mme. Fahmy was sketched at Deauville by "Sem,'? who prophatically labelled his few deft lines, "La disenchantée."
Probably the two chief causes of "Sem's" success are due to the fact that he works as much with his brain as with his pencil, and always catches his subjects in movement, "Loujours & mauvement" he said, emphatically. Yet I do not work quickly. {t is necessary, if possible, to be with people for some days and study them closely. I give myself a great deal of time if I wish to do a subject really well.
"But the basis of the idea in the brain must be movement. I never ask people to sit or stand still for me."
And of the many hundreds of. People he has caricatured, the artist is proud to say that he hag never made one: angry..
This is '"Sem's" first visit to London since -pre-war. days.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.