THE PAUL GUILLATJME GALLERY, 73 GROSVENOR STREET, W. 1.] Faun
MAvoa, a memorial exhibition of whose paintings is being held at the Paul Guillaume Gallery, was born in York- shire in 1866. He studied art partly at South Kensington, and partly in Paris at Julien's. The latter part of his life was lived in France, and he died in 1916 following an operation, and while serving with the Artists' Rifles. This exhibition consists of thirty-one water colours and thirteen oil paintings. He was an artist who didnotconfinehimselfwithin any definite limits, and it is his variety, both in subject and treatment, which strikes one most of all. His water colours are con- sistently good, and there is a sort of liquid transparency about some of his work, which increases its beauty. Marligues, with its reds and browns, is one which calls for special mention in this respect. Two landscapes, Cassis and Atn.berley, Sussex, the former with heavy outline, the latter unoutlined, are examples of different, but equally effective treatment. He seems to have been attracted by shore crowds, and one can almost feel his delight in painting in a bright patch of colour as in his Orange Jacket. His oil paintings are hardly as arresting as his water colours. The Quay, Cassis, rather Brangwyn-like in composition, and the Mouth of the Caliche, a Large canvas displaying nearly all sky, show him at his best in this medium. This exhibition cannot fail to leave a feeling of regret that an artist of such attainments should have died so effinuarativelY Young.
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