ROYAL ACADEMY DISPLAY
A STUDY OF MAN AND BEAST
SIR W. ORPEN MAKES A SENSATION.
(UNTIED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CADLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 3rd May, The Royal Academy pictures are fewer and smaller than last year. Naturally, attention is attracted to Sergeant's portrait of the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, under which a laurel wreath has 1 been placed. This is one of the last pictures he has painted. The most discussed picture is Sir William Orpen's "Man Versus Beast," showing the interior of a booth in.which a man is vanquished by a bear. The most prominent figures are a tamer and a monkey, but the beasts 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 the picture yesterday.- The general comment was that tho bear was the most docent thing in the picture. Sir William .Orpen declared that tho picture is intended to convey only what it portrays.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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