[THE LEICESTER GALLERIES, LEICESTER SQUARE.] The Leicester Galleries are starting
their winter season with an exhibition of paintings and water-colours by Mr. C. R. Nevinson, and sculpture by a Russian, Miss Dora Gordine.
Mr. Nevinson owes allegiance to no school or group, and has always used his own methods to express his subject. What strikes one most when viewing this exhibition is, that wherever he may be working, be it London, Paris, or New York, he instinctively seizes the correct method for such expression. He is very susceptible to the atmosphere of his locality, as his St. Paul's from the Bear Garden and St. Jean de Luz, hung next door to each other, show. The former cold, the latter full of sun. There is more colour in many of his works than formerly, and his Baroque, a still life, is full of it. Occasionally he drops into cubism, as in A Cockney Cacophony, but the cubism is of a mild variety, and perfectly lucid. Some subjects, such as West- minster from the Savage Club and Oh, To be in England, appear in both oils and water colour, and in both these cases the water colour is the more pleasing. In the latter the mauve sky seen through the leafless trees is very charming indeed. Mr. Nevinson has covered much ground in an interesting way ; one can only mention Notre Dame from Pont d'Austerlitz, London, Winter, with its many gulls, New York from the Woolworth Tower, and The New Forest as being particularly worth attention.
Miss Gordine, who works in Paris, shows at her best when modelling national types of heads in bronze, and many of her works are of this character. Her Guadeloupe Head (Negress) is her best effort, and is very good indeed. Her full figure, Javanese Dancer, with its distorted limbs is, however, almost repulsive.
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