14 OCTOBER 1922, Page 15

PICTURES WORTH SEEING.

THE LEICESTER GALLERIES, LEICESTER SQUARE.

1. Statesmen and Authors : Portraits by Walter Tittle.

[An exhibition of efficient drawings and dry-points of celebrities.]

2. Paintings and Drawings by Lucien Pissarro.

[Like most Impressionism, these pictures fail to perform their theoretical function ; viewed closely, they have a gem-like charm, which becomes rather anaemic at proper focal distance. In So. 32 Mx. Pissarro is not only a technician, but an artist.]

3. Paintings by Simon Bussy.

[Making no pretence to be other than decorative, these paintings el animals and birds show a harmony well achieved by the use al the brightest of colours. The forms are well massed and conven- tionalized to fit the Oat scheme of decoration.]

GROSVE'NOR GALLERIES, 51A NEW BOND STREET, W.

Exhibition of Drawings.

1. Sir C. J. Holmes.

[Admirable sketches of well-discerned subjects.]

2. Mrs. E. Granger-Taylor.

[Pastels which, still retaining the " bloom " and brilliance of the medium, have, at the same time, a thoroughness in design and cxecutloa reminiscent of Augustus John at his best.]

3. R. G. D. Alexander.

[Spontaneous water-colours, whose only claim to artistic merit is thelit spontaneity.]

4. A. S. Hartrick, R. W.S.

[Various subjects ably illustrated in water-colours.]