Art
[MARIE LAURENCIN. THE PAUL GUILLAUME GALLERY.] THE small exhibition of paintings by Mme. Marie Laurencin at the Paul Guillaume Galleries in Grosvenor Street is an intimate affair. The artist presents her subjects with a sort of retiring gesture, as if she wished to place them before you to look at if you wished, but there is no effort on her part to force them on you. Delicate and gentle are the two adjectives which seem to meet the case most readily. Her subjects in this exhibition are women, together with one or two flower pieces, and all are handled in the same quiet way. There is more than a pinch of poetry in the composition of her works. Occasionally, as in her Jenne File Accoudee, she becomes slightly more emphatic and gives the mouth and other features more definition, but the whole effect gains little, if anything, thereby. Flews has a more complicated design than most of her other pieces. The most delightful work exhibited is Le Bouquet. The woman holding the flowers faces you direct, one of her hands being laid above the bunch. The flowers fade into the grey of the dress, and the dress fades into the grey background. One feels it might vanish suddenly, it is all so delicate. There is good movement in her Anumones, a water colour of maidens and horses standing amid green grass. The colour is washed on even more gently than in her oil works, and the whole is very delightful. The vogue for Mme. Laurencin's work, especially in New. York, is tremendous, and a visit to this exhibition will help to
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