Auckland Art Gallery


	M. T. WOOLLASTON Portrait of Alec White Dorothy Bramwell's Portrait Of Jack (Crayon, 19 1/4 x 15 inches) is more concerned with the psychology of the subject than is the Woollaston portrait, but it evokes this man with an appropriately gnarled line.In the flavour of both the Woollaston and the Bramwell portraits there is something indefinably of this country — a certain ruggedness and impatience with delicacy. By way of contrast, the ' poetry' of Anne Severs' drawing Standing Girl (Crayon, 22 x 91) is perhaps of a more European and sophisticated order. This pensive, elegant, rather melancholy nude reminds one of the drawings of Giacomo Manzu. Anne Severs, English by birth, studied in Milan, and her sculpture has no doubt come to some extent under the direct influence of the Italian realist school. R.D.F.
A DRAWING BY A PAINTER or a sculptor may sometimes be a surprisingly enlightening thing. Subtle qualities of immediacy, often sacrificed in the final work in the interests of breadth, survive in the drawing, and in fact constitute its charm. In such an intimate record we may perhaps apprehend more directly the essence of the artist's discovery. The three drawings reproduced on these pages have, each in their own differing ways, this quality of spontaneity and potentiality. Tosswill Woollaston's Portrait Of Alec White (pen drawing, 6 x 7) seems to have affinities with the Cezanne tradition; it is but one stage in the patient searching for form, for the felt equilibrium of solid and space that lies beyond the complexities of accidental or surface detail.	DOROTHY BRAMWELL Jack

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