Catalog of Portraits, 1909-1911, 1929 [page 4]

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in green ink: - Criticisms -

Here we have Aretino in his friends' studio, without self-consciousness, without pose, and without reserve, abstracted for a moment, in a mood of equable reverie, which allows one to see the whole man with no one aspect so emphasized as to disturb the balance. It is an intensely artistic portrait...painted without any compromises with the exigencies of princely or popular demands. Such at least is the impression which we get from this wonderful masterpiece, with its intense simplification of form, of tone, and of color. The handling betrays the same singleness of purpose; the impressive effect of solidity and mass is obtained by thin scumbles, put on with the utmost ease and apparent rapidity; a few marvelously written scrawls of lighter yellow upon the half-tone of the sleeve give it at once its force and an adequate notion of texture. in green ink: Ŧ

in green ink Ŧ Roger E. Fry.

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