ARTIST'S GREATEST WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 19

ARTIST'S GREATEST WORK

SUFFERINGS OF WOMEN

Mr. Philip A. de Laszlo, the famous portrait painter, is to put his greatest work into a picture showing the sufferings, of women during the Great War, states a London writer.

First, however, he is going to paint a portrait of Sir Flinder Petrie, the Egyptologist. He will begin work on this at once. "Then,1' he said,- "I want to work on my greatest.work. I believe every painter should paint one outstanding work, into which he should pour all his knowledge and ability. I have worked out the theme for mine, which wjll be called 'Women in 1914-18.' It will depict the sufferings of women during the war."

Mr. de Laszlo, who is 65, has probably painted the portraits of more distinguished people than any other living artist. He said his picture of women in the war would be a canvas 10ft by 12ft, showing a group of women praying in a church. "The women of all countries who had to spend months and years in dread of a telegram suffered more, 1 think, than the men who were fighting," he added. "I used to see them praying in church and their sad faces have haunted me. I hope to express through them all the grief and silent cruelty of war."

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