IN THE NUDE

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1038, 25 February 1927, Page 8

IN THE NUDE

{ TOWN EDITION

FEMALIE FIGURE PUT TN PICTURE OF LITERARY MAN’S SITTING , ROOM AN ARTISTIC IMBROGLIO . (Anst. and N.Z. G&bla). (Received Feb. 25, noon) London, Fob. 24: An amusing artistic imbroglio has arisen out o( Air Sisley Huddleston., author, permitting VMr 0. R. AV. Nevison to paint a; 'picture (of bis sitting room in. Paris. Air Nevison presented the picture to the Tate Gallery, but later,. unknown to. Air Huddleston, he with- ' drew the canvas and painted a. similar one to which die added > a nude woman reclining on, a. couch,. which Air H. G Wells bought and presented to the 'Ta.te Gallery. . Huddleston on. visiting the gallery saw; the picture bapd was horrified. He wrote to Air Nevison: It is gratifying to iliink' mv rooms have a per-, m a hoi it place in/ a Loudon. Aluseum, but A>:ha.t about the nude woman on the couch ? You will agree there was none there. These days are too fullof .seandalmongering and allegations lightly made" are;, accepted tragically. Therefore T must vigorously repudiated the full-sized female model. These things may be permitted to artists, but not in a. respectable writing'. mans studio.”