ROYAL ACADEMY
■ THE YEAR’S PICTURES. “MAN VERSUS BEAST.” ORPEN’S REMARKABLE PAINTING. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT' (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND 1 CABLE ASSN.i (Received May 4, 1 a.m.) LONDON, May 3. Academy pictures arc fewer and smaller than last year. Naturally attention is attracted to Sargent’s portrait of the Marchioness Curzon of Iveddcston, under which a laurel wreath has been placed. This is one of the last pictures lie painted.
The most discussed picture is Sir W. Orpen’s “Man Versus Beast,” showing the interior of a booth in which a man is vanquished by a hear. The most prominent figures are tlie tamer an'd monkey, hut the- beasts appear idealised compared! with the men and women spectators, who are portrayed as tho real beasts of the scene. It was difficult to get near the picture yesterday. General commennt was that the hear was the most decent thing in the picture. _ Sir W. Orpen declares that the .picture* is intended to convey only what it portrays.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 10002, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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