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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».

 

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