Art
[MAURICE LAMBERT. MESSRS. ARTHUR TOOTH AND SONS, LTD.]
A PLEASANT sense of having been roused out of the ordinary groove and stimulated is the feeling which the exhibition of new sculpture by Mr. Maurice Lambert, at Messrs. Arthur Tooth's Gallery produces. This young English artist has worked out his ideas partly realistically and partly in abstract, but his abstract ideas are not problems to be solved only by the initiated, they are of the kind which can be followed and found out. He can lay claim to originality on the materials he uses, and, above all, on the juxtaposition in which he places them. His Hooked Fish, for instance, is made up of five different materials. The fish is of aluminium, plate glass represents the broken water surface, plywood the rod and line straining under the fish's weight, cellonite fills in the whole plane of tension, and it is mounted on a base of concrete. His two most beautiful works are a large Departure of- Birds, cut from a big piece of alabatter on a Roman stone mount, and Aphrodite, m cast iron, rising from a marble sea. Both are finished in the beautifully smooth manner which is a marked feature of his work. The curve of the Aphrodite figure, which, by the way, is headless, is delicately sinuous, one might almost say melodious. His portrait busts do not appeal so much, but the head of Scott Goddard, in cast iron polished with stove black, is a hard striking likeness.
It is altogether a highly interesting exhibition, which will well repay a visit.
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