ABSTRACT
Gino severini paints what he feels, what he chooses to feel, what he is naturally disposed to feel, if you will, with an amazing virtuosity. The studies in movement shown at the Marlborough Gallery in Duke Street for two. or three weeks in April and May were full of technical resource, of lively draughtsmanship, of an almost baffling inventiveness. Relatively simple drawings of dancers, highly complex works in which colour, line and tone span heterodoxically into whirling compositions— with scarcely an exception they were effective as a pistol shot. What is even more, they were pleasantly effective. The line was strong and sweeping, instinct with movement : the colour, where colour was used, made cunning play with its whites and lemons and bright greens against a heavier puce.
