Show L Paints i My t 1 S Zt t t- t 4 I r- r 7 r S 1 A 1 h I i t I IT T 1 a at t S jr Zuloagas famous portrait of Julia Hoyt which has lias aroused international international inter inter- national comment How the celebrated Spaniard her portrait portraits is s described in the accompanying article by Mrs Hoyt S Written by J JULIA J ULIA HOYT Copyright 1923 In United States and nd O C onada anada by American Allia Allis ne nee flee To To me me all days In In Paris ar are full I of romance but during diring my visit there last ast spring one day particularly stands out in my mind a as asa a re day day day- that was the day I Im Imet met t When tho friends wit with whom who I Ito was to drive that afternoon told 1 me that that 1 I Iwas was going to Zuloagas studio In Montmartre Montmartre Montmartre Mont- Mont martre 1 I was thrilled beyond words not only because critics and connoisseurs connoisseurs connoisseurs place Jace 1 lurn ll yen very I high bigli indeed among modern painters but also be because be- be cause I L have havo always had bad hadah ah nh unbound unbound- unbounded ed id though ignorant admiration for his ils work worl i So So very happy and enthusiastic tlc I i stepped into the tho taxi and we wo started fOI for his studio A studio in Montmartre tre re That in Itself itsel conjures s up all I sorts of or r mantic pictures r On stepping out of th the elevator levator those little elevators In France FratT one Frane one e-one one always wonders if it one wip reach ones one's destination or go crashing to t earth arth we knocked as we had b been en told told- to todo todo todo do on a door at the end of ot the baliA hallA hall bali I A voice wa heard beard In answer and I soon we heard steps down some stairs As the door was opened I I had my first glimpse of It was only a glimpse as it was very ery dark darl In a deep pleasant voice he asked ed us to follow him up the stairs Which we hastened to do and were and were ushered into Into his his studio I While tho the introductions were being made I glanced with eager curiosIty curiosity curiosity curios curios- ity around the studio It was my first visit to a studio In Montmartre and I must confess that m my first Fe sst t d ln was o one of disappointment P Perhaps I had unconsciously ex expected expected ex- ex exI I the luxurious studio of ot the novel and the stage yards Afterwards I grew to love the bare room with Its walls walls' of an indeterminate color its one or two dilapidated chairs its great preat easel and the mysterious can can- I v vas s backs of ot pct pictures res f faced ced toward the wall There were a few ota oia and I dingy costumes flung on a chair the theone theone theone one spot of color and beauty in tho room being a a. lovely Spanish shawl Nothing o of the romantic or artistic ar ar- ar about this studio but a real When I grew to know it better it seemed so saturated with the personality of oC its owner that I completely forgot Its Us bareness din- din giness There were alwa always s 's two men there thereto I to whom we Were were vere Introduced but to whom I regret to say I paid little attention o My My- eyes and e ears ry were all for for- and it was s only later that I discovered that one of those two men is the greatest modern writer In in in- Spain Our host was In a very dirty shirt for Cor which he apologized his apologized his workIng working work work- ing And the only thing about him him or his clothes that at all fitted in with ones one's Idea of ot of an artist in his studio was the artists artist's cap or be- be I ret o on on- his head This however he ho soon removed o He is s a man who In his 3 youth must st have v vb b been e very handsome handsome hand hand- in some with regular features featurE's and great charm and Intelligence of oC expression Today he is rather bald and slightly fat tat But after one l h has s talked to him hima a few tew minutes these things are en entirely entirely en- en forgotten His great simplicity and charm far these de defects defects de- de of or appe appearance rance which the years have haxe brought My day proved even more exciting than I had expected As AsI IWas J I I Was stan standing overwhelmed in front of his portrait of an Italian the Marchesa l an extraordinary I portrait of ot an extraordinary woman I heard him say in French I must make malte a portrait of ot her I turned turned and and found him looking at me I am am told that I turned scarlet scarlet- I certainly felt that and a great deal more with excitement and embarrass embarrass- ment I couldn't believe my ears until I heard r him almost apologetically t asking mo me o to pose for him him if lf gl it would not bore me too much My Idol In Inthe Inthe inthe the painting world was asking meto mo me moto me meto to sit for Cor him I managed somehow tp tl convey the Information that I not only would not be bo bored but was flattered flattered flat flat- and proud prout beyond words 1 He then began showing us tho the few c canvases he had in his studio There were not many but each one was wasso wasso wasso so powerful so searching a study of oc ofa a n personality and yet so unmistakably bly a One secret of or the greatness of is his uncanny ability to get the chara character ter and temperament tem tern of ot the sitter and yet keep all the romance and mystery of the Spain of ot We Ve could have stayed on for hours but the time came when we felt that we perhaps were outstaying our wel wel- come As I had no dress in which he would paint mo he rae he wont won't paint you in modern clothes clothes we we made an appointment for the next day to devise a dress This was wa accomplished pushed and soon after began for tor me some of ot the most delightful afternoons I have havo ever spent To To- Tobe be continued |