ENGLISH ARTISTS. Tim PAUL GUILLAUME GALLERY.
The Paul Guillaume Gallery, which has given us such excellent exhibitions of French art, has now got together a collection of works by English artists which should be seen by everyone. This selection ranges from four Richard Wilsons, the only "old masters" in the exhibition, to Mr. Paul Nash's Pool, which was painted, I believe, this year. There are two pictures by Mr. Augustus John, Carlotta, a portrait of his first wife, painted in 1904, and a smaller portrait of Rcrmilly John. The larger portrait is truly a marvellous picture. Nodes Ambrosianae, a rather dark glimpse of the gods in a greenish music-hall gallery, and Early Morning, a bedroom scene with light simply spilling into it, are two well-chosen examples of Mr. Sickert's work. Mr. Stanley Spencer has welded the crowd in his Cookham, War Memorial, into an harmonious decoration. It is strongly individualistic, unlike anything else, and rather emotionally disturbing. Another beautiful picture is Landscape, by Charles Conder. It is like a green and blue jewel, its mountains and lake are SO vivid. Mr. Paul Nash's "architectural," The Pool, can be compared with his The Orchard, an earlier work. Two flower subjects and The Room with a View are by Mr. Duncan Grant. The recession in the last named is skilfully managed. Mr. Mark Gertler, Mr. Edward Wolfe, Mr. Matthew Smith and Fred Mayor are the other artists, whose work is being exhibited.
When the work of the present age is summed up acKl Classified' some of the pictures in this exhibition will most certainly occupy a classical niche.
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