ARTISTIC IMBROGLIO
AUTHOR’S SITTING ROOM.
PICTURE PAINTED BY ARTIST. CHANGE MADE LATER. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received February 25, 11.50 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 24. An amusing artistic imbroglio has arisen out of Mr Sisley Huddleston, the author,i permitting Mr C. R. W. Nevinson to paint a picture of his sitting room in Paris. Mr Nevinson presented the picture to the State Gallery and later, unknown to Mr Hiddleston, he withdrew the canvas and painted a similar one, to which he added a nude woman reclining on a couch, which Mr H. G. Wells bought and presented to the Tate Gallery. Mr Huddleston, visiting the gallery, saw the picture and was horrified. He wrote to, Mr Nevinson: “It is gratifying to think that my rooms have a permanent place in the London Museum, but what about the nudewoman on the couch? You will agree that there was none there. These days are too full of scandal-mongering, and allegations lightly made are accepted tragically; therefore I must vigorously repudiate the full-sized female model. These things may be permitted artists, but not in a respectable writing man’s studio.”—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 75, 25 February 1927, Page 7
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187ARTISTIC IMBROGLIO Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 75, 25 February 1927, Page 7
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