THE TATE GALLERY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 14

THE TATE GALLERY

SYMBOLIC GOLD FISH FAILS TO

RAISE MONEY,

A symbolic gold fißh flashed its scales for a time in the Tate Gallery, which .is _to be considerably enlarged, thanks to' the generosity of Sir Joseph Duveen, states, the "Manchester Guardian.'.' .It was brought there by Mr. Siegfried Sassoon fin July, 1921, -when it seemed likely that Millais's masterpiece, X' The Carpenter's Shop," would leave the country for lack of the few thousand pounds needed to acquire it. The" picture at that time, as Mr. Sassoon related in a letter to " The Nation," belonged to his aunt, Mrs. Frederick Beer,' " whose estate has been under'the administration of the Lunacy Commissioners for the last seventeen years. As a comparatively indigent member: $f the tribe of Bassoons, I deplore the fact' that none of my family has acquired it for the National Art Collection. In. order'to. remind them of their responsibility in the matter, I have 'today placed one gold fish in the fountain iii the entrance of the Tate Gallery. 1 hope that the presence of this diminutive cypririoid. may induce some Sassion, more affluent than myself, to Cdmo forward with the money," Mr, Ba W opn!i! appeal to feu family proved ineffgejivej