“MAN AND BEAST”
Most Discussed Academy
Picture
OEPEN DENIES ALLEGORICAL MEANING.
[By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 11.5 p.m.)
LONDON, May 3,
Academy- pictures are fewer and smaller than last year. Naturally, attention is attracted to Sargent's portrait of the Marchioness Curzon of ICedleston, under which a laurel wreath has been placed. This is one of the last pictures he painted. The most discussed picture is Sir William Open’s “Man versus Beast.” showing the interior of . a booth, in which a man is vanquished by a bear The most prominent figures are a tamer and a monkey, but the beasts appear idealised compared with the men and women spectators who are portrayed as the real beasts of the scene.
It was difficult to get near the picture yesterday. General comment was that the boar was the most decent thing in the picture. Sir William Orpcn declared the picture is intended to convey only what It portrays.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2671, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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