ACADEMY PICTURES.
THIS YEAR’S SENSATION. “MAN v. BEAST.” London, May 3. The Academy pictures are fewer and smaller than last year. Naturally attention was attracted to Sargent’s portrait of the Marchioness Curzon of Keddleston, under which a laurel wreath has been placed. This is one of the last pictures he painted. The most discussed picture is Sir William Orpen’s “Man versus Beast,” showing the interior of a booth in which a man is vanquished by a bear. ’The most prominent figures are the tamer and a monkey, but the beasts appear idealised compared with the men and women spectators, who are portrayed as the real boasts of the scene. It was difficult to get near the picture yesterday. The general comment was that the bear was the most decent thing in the picture. Sir William Orpen declared that the picture was intended to convey only what it portrays. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 126, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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