Cezanne Water Colours. By Lionello Venturi. (Bruno Cassirer. 8s. 6d.)
THIRTY-TWO water-colours are here reproduced in half-tone, one of them in colour. Five are published for the first time. The volume is slim, but the size of reproduction generous and the quality good, The text, in the form of running commentary on the illustrations, is not much aid to appreciation, and adds nothing to scholarship. It is painstaking, but often obscures points it should clarify. (" Instead of forming the contour they [the brushstrokes] show up the object in itself, not the object of nature, but the object of painting, inde- pendent of nature and therefore a new kind of nature—the nature of painting.") The list of illustrations contains notes on the colours-. a useful practice that could be followed by other editors of collections of black and white reproductions with advantage.
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