PAINTING RUINED.
VANDALISM IN WELLINGTON. Per Pess Association. WELLINGTON, June 4. Some vandal -yesterday afternoon, at the Dominion Art Gallery, cut a piece clean out of Harold Speed’s beautiful picture, “May Morning,” a fine oil painting 30 inches by 24 inches depicting the semi-nude figure of a girl sitting against a colourful background. , The work was purchased in 1928 bv the New Zealand Academy for £l5O and formed part of the collection presented by the academy to the National Gallery. The piece cut out is more or less circular, measuring nine inches by seven, and including the upper part of the torso. Whoever committed the vandalism took this piece away, as there is no "sign of it. The picture is ruined.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 5 June 1937, Page 2
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121PAINTING RUINED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 5 June 1937, Page 2
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