Mari Clasen, by Halfdan Egedius. Privately owned
in Christiania

that take a place apart-- Egedius and Sohlberg, the first
because he died too early to share in the general retreat to
impressionism, the other because his nature and his endow-
ments lean altogether in the opposite direction and because
on the whole he has never followed the stream.

Halfdan Egedius, who was born in 1877, was something
of the child prodigy. At a very early age, in his first work,
he gave evidence of promise; but just as promise was giving
way to assurance of the reality and power of his gifts, and
to a well-founded expectation of decisive results, death car-
ried him off before he had completed his twenty-second
year. Egedius sounded his prelude upon the finest chords in
Werenskiold's art, upon the illustrations to the Tales and

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