[Tire Gouiu. GALLERY, 5, REGENT STREET] Four artists are exhibiting
at the Goupil, Mr. Eric Gill showing sculpture and drawings, Mr. Neville Lewis, Mr. John Nash, and Mr. Gilbert Spencer, drawings and water- colours.
f- In any company Mr. Gill's work must stand out prominently, and every one of his pieCes has an arresting force of its own.
• Mr. Gill goes no further than his oWn. country for his materials, and the choice of these materials is by -no means the least successful about his work. The chief exhibit is a colossal torso of- a kneeling woman, about eight feet high, carved in polished .Hoptonwood stone. One would imagine that such a bulk in so small a gallery would appear unusual, but the artist's skill -is such that the impression created is solely one Of -beauty ; size; bulk, and its limbless condition are entirely forgotten. The same stone is used in " The Grave Stone (No. 2), where the material exactly fits the nude figure. And so with his other works, each- subject blends into the material he -uses. :" Eve " (No. 8) in Bath stone; Head-dress" (No. 11), with its tinted lips, in Beer stone, " Madonna " (No. 13) in ivory, are all as nearly perfect as one could wish. His drawings, of which No. 28 is outstanding, should haVe been shown separately.
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