Catalog of Portraits, 1909-1911, 1929 [page 108]

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[clear-]cutness of the Elgin marbles. Again, expressive as is the face of the clean shaven rider, this part of the picture does not equate with the supremely moving achievements of Rembrandt. A spell of sheer beauty, however, is cast about the spectator in passage after passage passionately simplified. Mark the easy gesture of the young man who, in an exquisitely painted coat, sits his steed with so much assurance; mark the majesty of the hill background, a temple-like fortress crowning its summit, at once solid and luminous, subdued yet rich in colour-mark, not least, the smouldering fires at the base of the hill on the right, near the water transfigured into pictorial terms of pure potency, fires whose flame



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