BENEFIT OF NEEDY.
History's Most Astonishing Art Exhibition. SCHEME OF BARTER. (Received 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, January 25. i The most astonishing art exhibition) in history closed after doing business valued at 2,500,000 francs for the benefit] of needy craftsmen. Nothing was sold 4 every picture, statue, object d'art being bartered for goods. One artist secured! a motor car in exchange for a picture* and another several dozen bottles ofi Chablis. A surgeon gave a free operation, and a physician a year's free at-, tendance. So' successful was the exhibi-* tion that it is to be repeated in 1934.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 21, 26 January 1933, Page 7
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