Art
THE LONDON Guour. THE NEW BURLINGTON GALLERIES.
IN their twenty-seventh exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, the London Group have been generous, two hundred And fifty-five works, the majority of which are oil paintings, being shown. It is more an exhibition for artists in which various styles and methods can be studied than a popular One. One wall in the long gallery, for instance, is entirely given up to cubist and other experiments. Four busts by Epstein are certain to get attention • they are full of robust characterization. Mr. Sickert's Entente Anglo-Russe shows a formal arrangement of ballerinas, wheat sheaves and sickles, painted with apparent abandon, and curiously coloured. Mr. Duncan Grant's Doorway, noticeable for complete absence of dark tones, is alive with colour, the bit of red drapery Inside the door being well contrasted with the flowers outside. Mrs. Bell has produced in Siesta a work which is satisfying both from a decorative and atmospheric point of view, though the well, round which the group are resting, seems a bit clumsy. Mr. Mark Gertler's Still Life of cabbage and rhubarb is aggressive, the colouring of the frame is the same as in the picture. Both Mr. Roger Fry's BrantOme and Salle des *Caryatides, Louvre, should be noticed, the latter particularly for the way in which he has balanced a full and complicated subject. The glow of evening light on snow is „finely depicted in Mr. Porter's Gardens in Snow, and the whole is fine, forcible painting. From among so many works mention can only be made of Mr. Adrian Affinson's Spring in Sidi Bou Said, Arr. John Wood's The Old Mill, Mr. Drinmnond's The Stag Tavern, and Mr. R. 0. Dunlop's Still Life.
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