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10 MADAME I1m • i •—---------IYOOOngrn-is-Uutosi-*1 is int\S!MADE A GREATIREPOT ATIONliAS A PAINTER.Ii WinofMadame Ivy de Verley Who(At Present Has a StudioIn America.Oiltin HER ‘MASKS’ ‘FACES’.SilttereEulogistic Comments MadeIOn Her Efforts By a Num-sehetn-her of Writers.A daughter of Jamaica. Madame on! Ivy de Verley (Mrs. Davoreen) has n-1 made a great name for herself in 58. | England and the I nited States as a he ; portrait painter, and to this she is adding almost daily.ty 1 Madame de Verley. a daughter ot ■in I the late .Mr. Louis Verley, first niar-to : ned Mr. Bradley, who was killed in in the great earthquake. She then went to England and took up the study of painting, for which she had a natural gift. She married Mr. Da-of voreen. and then opened the ‘•Scarab rjj Studio , which rapidly Tiecame one if.! t)f the most widely known art centres py | of the British nation, while Madame de Verley gained fame as a portrait painter, and the inventor of ‘lifentii-luu-aw).masks’. The masks are all done n n the colours of the living face, ant rf is this invention and her remark [f able application of it that has wor for the artist such wide fame. Ma dame de Verley a few months agf ot crossed over to the United .States it, : and established a “Scarab Studio’’ ir Hollywood, California, and innow field is winning the appreciatio I so universally bestowed upon her i! England and the continent.| Mr. Raymond Blathwayt, the we] St known author and critic, is publish j a book of memories and reminis fences, in which hlt;- will deal wit]^ Madame de Verley and her ‘‘mask and faces’’, in part he writes: -()f “She has invented a system of por r traiture which is nothing less tha {j. flle adaption of the “mask afte death’’ to living portraiture and tit effect is striking and at times eve weird in tlie extreme. To me thehtx-* *I *j | were the portraits of the soul of in; |Sr j rather than painted ||||yessioris i his mere fleshly faro. They wore #plt;ac-lt; inions of pygcho analysis in il || | most vim||||| litoral .Ml1 anigyf'(, Word. She reveals herself as a sta i i! dent of character from whom no s| crets are hidden and to whom tIfs inmost thoughts. Is-\va* *canny pet |s. interest ing,j triguing, • but one SlBfeiders iiSitji m • |really the legitimate art and meth of the portrait painter. As look at the* curious and tantali]$J canvasses you cat eh yourself repp;ing to yourself tin* words of VietHugo s Mahomet. ‘I am the vile ticof suhlime conniet”.° j dame de Vet lev’# work !ias a 1 been very hi iiiy praised b art c; • tics of the San Frai^i|ilt; a ji jj^wsr pers and art |ftrnals.3.
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Kingston Daily Gleaner
Kingston, Kingston, JM
Fri, Jan 27, 1922
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