STRANGE EXCHANGES
The processes of barter have attained new heights of fantasy at this Winter's Salon dcs Echanges, which has just closed ai Paris. Like most other bartering places, the salon sprang up when the great slump began and art lovers ceased to.buy pictures for cash. But tradesmen were willing to pay for their pictures in kind, and that was how the Salon dcs Echanges began, .says the "New York Times." A cafe proprietor, for example, was willing to feed an artist free of charge for two or three months in return for a picture. A coalman was willing to pay for a picture with a few sacks of coal. One artist traded a picture to a plumber in return for the plumber's agreement to fix a bath in his studio. This winter the show registered its most original transaction when one of the artists exchanged b portrait of M. Laval, former Premier, for a live zebra.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 24
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