ABSTRACT
This exhibition served to sum up graphically the change that had taken place in the style of English art and the sensibility of the British public since Roger Fry’s first Post-Impressionist exhibition in the three years between 1910 and 1913. The oldmasters of Post-Impressionism were represented by the paintings of Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin; Fauvism in both its Continental and its English forms in the paintings of Friesz, Derain, Segonzac, J.D. Fergusson and Wolmark. Work by the two most prominent French living artists — Picasso and Matisse — was seen alongside the more conservative ‘Neo-realism’ of Gore, Ginner and Gilman and there was Futurist painting by Severini together with recent Vorticist work by Wyndham Lewis, Wadsworth and Nevinson. Bloomsbury painting — work by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Fry was notably absent after the rift between Fry and Lewis over the Omega project.
