ACADEMY PICTURE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 10

ACADEMY PICTURE

WHY IT WAS'WITHDRAWN

ALLEGORICAL STUDY OF KING EDWARD

ARTIST'S DENIAL

Onited Press 4ssoc!nt!on —By Flectric Tell

Eraph—Copyright. (Received April 29, 2.10 p.m.)

LONDON, April 28. : The usual annual Royal Academy "sensation" has arisen. It concern! this year the picture "The1 Lord of Creation," by Oswald Moser, who states that though the picture was accepted and hung he received a letter saying '.'As the picture certainly alludes to an affair which is a matter of especially painful regret to the public," the president and the council had decided ta. remove it from the exhibition. Mr. Moser says "They obviously think it refers in some way to the Duke of Windsor, but it is nothing of the sort. It is simply a symbolical study of ft young man, painted two years ago. The crown on his head is purely symbolical of man's supposed superiority over birds and beasts."

A representative of the council who was concerned with the rejection says:

"We -were told, and it is common gossip, that the picture was an allegorical study of King Edward, and we felt that though the portraiture was not very strong it would cause some disturbance and come to the ears of the Royal Family. It is our policy never to exhibit a picture which can be construed as a reflection on any member of the Royal Family."

The "Daily Mail", says that the pio ture showed a young man with a crown on his head being tugged along by an alluring- y\>ung woman.