ORPEN WAR PICTURE
.MUSEUM AUTHORITIES DECLINE TO PURCHASE.
Press Association—-By Telegraph—Copyright
LONDON, May 21,
The Imperial War Museum has declined to complete Die purchase of Orpen’s Academy picture, ‘ An Unknown British Soldier in Franco.’ Tho painter thus loses £2,000 through not completing the painting of generals and politicians.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
[Sir William Orpcn was asked to paint three pictures of tho Peace Conference' for tho Imperial War Museum. He finished two of them, and then spent nine months painting a group of forty statesmen and others in tno Great Hall of Versailles, “ but, somehow.,’ Orpen said, “ I could not go on. It all seomed so far from reality as I saw it at tho front. I kept thinking of the soldiers who remain in France for ever. So I nibbed out the statesmen and other leaders who'are said to have won tho war, and painted the coffin of the Unknown, guarded by two dead comrades.”]
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Evening Star, Issue 18281, 22 May 1923, Page 4
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156ORPEN WAR PICTURE Evening Star, Issue 18281, 22 May 1923, Page 4
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