THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
' "MAN VERSUS BEAST." LONDON, May 3. The pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy this year are fewer and smaller than last year. Naturally attention is attracted to the late John S. Sargent's ■ portrait of the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston. beneath which a laurel wreath has been placed. This is one of the last portraits Sargent painted. The most-discussed picture is Sir William Orpen's, "Man Versus Beast." This ■ shows the interior of a booth, in ! which a man is vanquished by a bear. - Tlie most prominent figures are those of 1 tbe tamer and a monkey, but the beasts 1 appear to be idealised compared with > the men and women spectators, who are ! portrayed as the real beasts of the scene. It was difficult to get near this pic- : hire yesterday. The general comment 1 was that the bear is the most decent : thing in the picture. Sir William says the picture is intended to convfcv only what it portrays. J (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 103, 4 May 1925, Page 7
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