FAMOUS PICTURE LOST

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 6

FAMOUS PICTURE LOST

An attempt is being mad* to trace the famous picture, "September Morn," which, through ita reproduction in magazines and on calendars, is known throughout the world, states the Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph." It represents a beautiful girl bathing in a placid.little lake with sunshine piercing the morning mist, and bringing out the play of lights on her head. Paul Chabas, who painted the picture, wants to know where it is at present, because he considers it his finest work. The work was originally bought by Mr. Philip Ortiz, a New York publisher, for £400. He calculates that it has since earned at least £20,000 in royalties. M. Leon Mantacheff, a wealthy Bussian, eventually bought it and took it to Moscow in 1913. It is now feared that the picture was either lost or destroyed during the revolution. When first taken to America it was attacked by certain people as being indecent. It was thi* attack which established its fame, as it served' to draw public attention to the beautjr of the work. ../.." . .. -■'." ",■ '% ■ ■. ~_■