MODERN “ART”

Grey River Argus, 1 May 1931, Page 5

MODERN “ART”

j AN ENGLISH FAKE Painted Over Photos ROYAL ACADEMY’S EYE-OPENER. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, April 29. , A Royal Aca<lemy sensation has bc<*i revealed by the announcement 'that three pictures, sent to the exhibition, by an English artist of international repute, were returned, owing to ithe discovery that they were based on enlarged photographs. The use of photos on which to superimpose paint is I unprecedented at the Academy. The “News-Chronicle” discloses (that the artist is Reginald Grenville 1 Ever.

I Ar. Academy official says that the discovery was made at a meeting of (the Academicians’ Association, which I was called to elect new Associate,s. Sir William Llewellyn, the President, asked the meeting to; view one of three pictures. which was found to be a:i enlarged photograph thickly covered with paint, whereupon the artist’s name was immediately withdrawn, and his pictures sent back. According to the “Evening News,” which interviewed the artist Eves, he has made portraits of Royalties and many celebrities.

The newspaper says: This is a terrible shock. When his career was about to culminate i n an Associateship, it was foolish to send the three pictures to the Academy. It must be emphasised that ho did not attempt to secure election by easy deception. Sir W. .Llewellyn says that the incident does not bar Eves from Yeseeking election as a a Associate, if his own artistic work reinstates him in the eyes of the Academy.

Mr Reginald Eves, who is 55 years of ago, and a Londoner, won a-' Slade School Scholarship in 1891, and later the. Slade. Scholarship. His paintings include thosO of a, verly large number of English royalties and notables. He is a member of the Royal Society cf Portrait Painters, and of the- Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

Eves’ Admission USED PHOTO TO SPEED UP. LONDON, April 30. The Daily Expres s interviewed Mr Reginald Eves, the painter of the photographic pictures. Mr Eves says that he did a foolish thing. He was suffering from neuritis. He made use of the photos to save time. Tic recalled that' Cameleta had used the camera obscura for the painting of similar architectural pictures. LONDON YOUTH’S PAINTING IS IT ALSO A FRAUD? LONDON, April 30. A second strange happening on the eve of the Academy is recorded. It relates to a carvas, entitled “On Boarkl Hi|-i by a sixteen-year-old Convent Garden salesman. The picture, has been widely discussed. It liais been removed from the walls, as the President is convinced 1 that it was copied from a book of illustrations of R. L. Stevenson’s “Treasure Island.” The boy artist, however, denies that he has even read “Treasure Island,” or tha,t he has seen the. book, though he saw t.h.e play. He says that he painted tlic picture entirely from imagination.