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Excerpts From Paris Press, 1928-1933

"The exhibition of young Stillman ably illustrates his talent for subtle and harmonious distinctions."

PINTURICCHIO
Garnet de la Semaine
December 21, 1928


"I don't know whether it is the reflection of his Russian heritage or a peculiar spiritual approach of the artist to his work that imbues his work with a strange mystic quality."

VLADIMIR ZELLER
Poslednia Novosty
December 24, 1928


"Stillman reveals to us a keenly sensitive and talented artist. Stillman has mastered his craft and realizes this mastery in his paintings. His still-lifes are splendidly poised, his portraits living. He is a born painter, whose talent will assuredly mature harmoniously."

F.D.
Figaro Artistique
December 27, 1928


"At the Bernheim-Jeune Galleries, the first Paris exhibition of the works of Ary Stillman brings the discovery of a fine temperament. One finds no metaphysics, no distortions or sham in these canvases. Certainly there is evidence of a scientific approach, but this is cleverly concealed. They are poems simple and direct, which come from the heart and move the heart."

MAXIMILIEN GAUTHIER
Gazette de Paris
December 29, 1928


"Ary Stillman is a painter who is constantly experimenting in many directions and who has a splendid feeling for color harmonies."

ARSENE ALEXANDRE
Figaro
December 29, 1928


"Stillman is well named, for if I am not mistaken his name means a man of silence. Indeed, Stillman is a silent artist. He appears to be a painter who despises bluff and blustering and who has carefully avoided philosophies full of sterile theories, and artificially enlightened schools. Stillman is silent, but in a discreet manner. The resonance and profundity of his work are there for those who know how to discover and see them."

LOUIS LEON MARTIN
Paris Soir
January 2, 1929


"Ary Stillman has succeeded in rising above the ordinary picturesquness. He is a painter above all else."

MAXIMILIEN GAUTIER
La Renaissance
December 1930


"The rich and extraordinary luminous colors sensitively juxtaposed recalls to mind the styles of no other artist."

FRANCOISE VERDIER
L'Africaine
January 2, 1931


" …Among American exhibitors, it is but justice to call attention to Ary Stillman, whose PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL and INDIAN DANCE are the work of a delicate and sincere artist. Since his last one-man show, Stillman has perfected the original technique which distinguishes his paintings and gives them almost the effect of tapestries. This curious process has proved exceptionally effective in his portrait, which is a very beautiful picture, radiating deep feeling and a strange, subdued harmony of color that is extremely exciting."

Chicago Daily Tribune, Paris Edition
January 24, 1931
Review of Salon Des Independents, 400 paintings exhibited


"These sensitive and harmonious works of Stillman have a plastic beauty."

GEORGE TURBIN
L'Ame Gauloise
February 15, 1931


"Stillman stands out; his portrait of a woman arranging flowers is a solid piece of work, yet very delicately handled."

GUSTAVE KAHN
Le Quotidien
July 9, 1932


"Stillman true poet that he is, approaches his subject with an understanding for that which is not always apparent on the exterior. A thoughtful glance, the trembling quiver of a mouth, the ardent pallor, where the oval emerges from the shadows, the relaxed hand — all his portraits take on a significance that reveals understanding nobility of the painter."

MARCELLE GASTON-MARTIN
La Concord
January 6, 1933