Incidentally, while regretting to troduce the' personal note, quite. possibly I have seen fully as mai of the leading European and Amexican picture-galleries and _collections as has Mr. "Art Gallery"; there: are few to which I did not go as a mistake to start off on the assump-, tion that the other fellow knows nothing Mr, "Art Gallery" may not agree! with me, but I personally place John Sargent upon a greater pedestal than either Cézanne or Roger Fry. Mr. Sargent endorses the opinions expressed in 1912 by Mr, D. S, Mac-Coll in an article in the "Nineteenth Century" from which the following is made;— with quite ind the haunting ides of an are tnt upon the early Monet, fat which he could" only hints He Monet's earlier of dark con-vided. ina high oid colour, but the figure wax for him, and from. dificultien "he escaped "into the still lifes 1 have Spoken of fattened jugs, apples, and asking' Hike blue. din' that' would lank it they fell, the'elaimn net up for that of)
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