Jean BOURET. « ARTS»
PARIS
Venice,
Florence, Rome. The artist knows very well how to execute his drawings
with profound observation and skill in making effects of light
and shade. The well composed landscapes please us in the direct way of
little Guardis.
Paul SENTENAC. PARIS
The
artist has rendered in some truly complete pictures with a sure
construction, texture and sturdy planning, colouring with exactly deep
resonances, and clashes of light and shade, the savage and a slightly
harsh character of these two regions..
Maximilien GAUTHIER. « LES NOUVELLES LITTÉRAIRES
». PARIS.
Raphael
Pricert whose luminous and poetic Landscapes have been appreciated for a
long time already, reveals himself here as a powerful painter of figures,
and ranks himself thus among the most complete artists of the present
time.
DARCY. « REVUE MODERNE DES ARTS
».
We
find there most of the qualities of this painter; the restraint of his
drawing, the faultless color, the harmony of the composition, and,
dominating, sure craftsmanship, a balance between feeling and vigour of
conception.
Raymond
CORTAT.
« LE CANTAL LIBRE
».
...the
modesty and judgment, harmonious balance of composition, fluid restraint
of drawing and the exact distribution of the light. All these qualifies I
am pleased to have found again, melted into his style with this extra gift
of poetry.
Marc CHESNEAU. STOCKHOLM.
Each one of his pictures is born of an emotion at the contact with a
landscape or a model. He possesses at bottom the technique of his art and
he makes you forget this with the poetry of his solid realizations.
Marianne COLIN. «TERRE RETROUVÉE»
The style of it is freer, sometimes rugged, often striking ; the color
frank, lustrous and shimmering. Pricert knows well how to render the
unreal and attractive profoundness of Lake Tiberias, the rhythmic
punctuation of the cypress trees.
Antonio ANIANTE. « JEUNE EUROPE ».
The art of Pricert is Latin. You recognize in his landscapes and his
portraits the pure line so dear to the artists of the Renaissance.
Eleanor JEWETT. « CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE ».
The
one-man exhibition by Rafael Pricert is a magnificent show of paintings
thrilling in colour and persuasive in composition. Venice, Florence,
Toledo, Stockholm and Paris have yielded a harvest of lyric beauty to his
talent.
Judith Kay REED. « ART DIGEST ».
NEW
YORK.
Rich colour, softly brushed ; immediate recognition of picturesque spots
and high technical competence marked most of the 25 paintings on view.
Copeland C. BURG. «CHICAGO HERALD AMERICAN ».
Pricert
uses rich colours, playing lights against darks. He is especially
interesting in colour complements and balances. He is a good technician
and in some of the paintings attains excellent textures with a minimum of
struggle.
«
LOS ANGELES TIME ».
ART.
His
water is wet and agreeably blue. His skies are light-filled and he has an
eye for the notes of colorful clothes.
Dorothy WALKER. « THE SAN FRANCISCO NEWS
».
The
oils are warm, friendly impressionistic scenes of France and Italy. There
are also a few excellent character studies. He translates the landscapes
and people into rich, sensitive colour and moods.
Gene BRACKLEY. « THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE ».
Most
of the current show are his warm sensitive landscapes of France and Italy.
Franck HOLLAND. « CHICAGO SUN TIMES ».
A
number of small intimate glimpses of Paris and Capri have a good deal of
charm. They are well painted. Particularly interesting of these are
Montmartre and Rocks in Capri,
«ST-LOUIS
POST DISPATCH ».
St-Marks
square, large enough for a museum piece, is a delight n its rich paint
quality and flickering color accents.
A.K .« DAILY
REGISTER-MAIL ».
One likened him to the old-time troubadours who traveled Europe with
lute and song ; only Pricert does his traveling with palette and easel
capturing the moods of lights and shadows, water and sky with paint and
brush.
«WESTERN
MORNING» . LONDON.
The elegant architecture of his work allied to high technical competence
and deep feeling; London has waited overlong to see it.
«
EXPRESSEN ». STOCKHOLM.
His
resplendent colouring and the nuances in the manner make us feel young
again in the middle of this grey November.
Gosta OTTOSON.« NERIKES
ALLEHANDA». SWEDEN.
Raphael
Pricert paints with feeling and intuition ; a perfect technique united in
his pictures with his awakened intellect.
HOUDIN. «OREBRO DAGBLAD».
SWEDEN.
Rafael Pricert is an impressionist of the first rank. What interests him above all is the play between
light and shade and the
changing nuances in the atmosphere. A colourist, he loves to treat his
motifs in finely shaded symphonies, which reveals a perfectly lyrical
temperament.
«IL
GAZZETTINO DI VERONA». ITALY.
Ambassador for the beauties of Verona, in painting in our city the most
interesting spots he admires above all ancient patina which covers the
palaces and the churches. He could not remain insensible to the chromatic
richness of the historic atmosphere of our «old piazzas».