MODERN ART
TRENDS IN EUROPE WAR SCARES RUIN" MARKET {For Fress Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. "Modern artists who have not adopted extremist ideas can command good prices for works. The craze for expression through cubes and prisisms is dying away. The cubist art had had an influence, particularly on architecture, but the phase had passed."
These were the statements of Mr. Sidney Thompson , a Christchureh artist who has been abroad for 15 months studying Continental art.
He was commissioned by the McDougall Art Gallery, Christchureh, tc purchase a picture, but found that the works of modern artists of standing commanded prices well beyond the amount at his disposal. Painters in Europe, however, were not having a prosperous time, the war scares having ruined their market. People realised that they might have to leave their homes at a moment's notice.
The commission he received to purchase a picture arose out of a bequest made toy a German girl who was a cook in Christchureh. She spent all her spare time attending the art galleries' and left all. her money, about £2OO, for the purchase of a picture so that other people could get mora pleasure out of life.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 7
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197MODERN ART Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19827, 3 January 1939, Page 7
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