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THE LEFEVRE GALLERY
IT can be seen from this exhibition that in the type of work produced on the Continent by such painters as Matisse,
Dufresne, Fries, and Marie Laurencin England can more than hold its own with France. How infinitely superior, for instance, is the Window (2), by Paul Nash, to the picture by Matisse which occupied a similar position on the wall at a recent exhibition of French Art held in the same galleries ! And although its influence may be traced to
Mlle. Laurencin's work, yet it must be admitted that Miss Winifred Nicholson's painting displays a firmer grasp of the painter's craft. Nevertheless, with but few exceptions, this exhibition limits itself to a particular type of English painting which, while it contains much of interest, gives no real guide to the trend of modern art in Britain. To my mind, no exhibition can be at all representative of Modern British Art which does not contain, on the one hand, examples of the work of that group of painters who, like the brother's Spencer, Mr. Henry Lamb and Mr. Colhi Gill, have assimilated all that was best in the pre-Raphaelites ; and, on the other hand, works by that other group of painters led by Mi. Wyndham-Lewis, Mi. Roberts, Mr. Wadsworth, and Mr. Etchells, who experimented so snecessfully in structural design and abstract painting. I do not say that the incor- poration of these two groups would have made this exhibition entirely representative .(for there are alsO a number of inde- pendent artists who cannot be labelled), but it would have made the exhibition more typically British.
In this exhibition there are some interesting pictures by Miss L. Pearson-Righetti (4), Mr. J. D. Fer,guSson. (0), Miss
M. Watson-Williams (15), Mr. S. J. Peploe (20), Mr. F. J. Porter (22), Mr. Ethelbert White (25), and Mr. David Jones (GO), good sculpture by Mr. Jacob Epstein and Mr. Frank Deibsori; and some of Mr. W. S. Murray's fine experiments in stonewar pottery.
MCCANCE.
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