FINE OIL PAINTING RUINED
♦ VANDAL AT NATIONAL GALLERY (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, June 4. A vandal yesterday afternoon, at the Dominion Art Gallery, cut a piece out of Harold Speed’s beautiful picture, “May Morning,” a fine oil painting, 30 inches by 24 inches, depicting the semi-nude figure of a girl sitting against a colourful background. The work was purchased in 1928 by the New Zealand Academy for £l5O, and formed part of a collection presented by the academy to the National Gallery. The piece cut out is more or less circular, measuring nine inches by seven, and includes the upper part o; the torso. Whoever committed the vandalism took this piece away, as there is no trace of it. The picture is ruined.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 10
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