[MISS PEARL BINDER. THE LITERARY BOOK COMPANY, COPTIC STREET.]
Miss Pearl Binder, whose water colours, drawings, and lithographs are being shown at the Literary Book Company, in Coptic Street, has exhibited successfully in Paris, but this is her first appearance in London. Though there is nothing very ambitious in her exhibition, she shows a cleverness throughout, with a very decidedly grotesque outlook on nearly all her subjects. Her most detailed painting is entitled Sunday Afternoon at Les Eglantines. Here she shows a house in cross section coniplete with furniture and inmates. It begins with the kitchen maid at her prayers in the attic, and ends with the cook playing cards in the basement with a male friend. It is highly amusing. Six costume studies are clever, but not strikingly original in design. In her drawings of heads she employs a broad stroke, as if she used the flat side of her crayon, and she often hovers on the brink of cubism. On the whole, she shows her best in her outline drawings of figures. These give one the impression of being jotted down without too much thought and study, and they gain by their straight- forwardness. Spanish Boy (No. 24), and Boy (No. 27) drawn on yellow paper, are two of the most successful. It is an interesting little exhibition. G. G.
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