VEILED MONUMENT.

Mataura Ensign, 6 November 1912, Page 5

VEILED MONUMENT.

The directors of t ,! he Pere la Chaise Cemetery, where Mr Jacob Epstein's monument on the grave of Oecar Wilde has been hidden from view by a great sheet of canvas, explains that in view of the unveiled character of the sphinxlike figure on the monument .he reported the matter to the municipal burial authorities. It was then laid before the Prefect of the Seine, who, hi Oris capacity of Mayor of Paris, gave instructions that the monument should be veiled until the sculptor consented to make certain alterations desired by the authorities.

Mr Epstein in his appeal to the Ministry Gf Fine Arts against this decision will bo supported by a number of French. artistsj including M. Rotten, the famous sculptor, who said tome: ''The monument is novel, and the authorities have a T horror of anything new,"