ARTIST’S MODEL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21186, 5 November 1938, Page 11

ARTIST’S MODEL

BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY The well-known Soho artist’s mode! Marguerite Salle, has had a “busman’s holiday" if ever there was one, says the “Daily Sketch.” “Salle (as everyone calls her) has just returned from Dalmatia with 30 paintings and drawings done by herself. She does sculpture, too—but as she was an art student in New Zealand before starting posing (to help pay her school fees) her virtuosity is not so surprising. “The Dalmatian trip had a romantic object—to find her ancestral home on an island near Dubrovnik, where her family lived before emigrating years ago to New Zealand. Salle found the ancestral mansion occupied by an uncle who spoke only Yugoslav, and lived mainly on small octopi. “But she was entertained royally, it unconventionally, for a week. Her biggest thrill, she told the writer, was being attacked by a goat while sketching on a mountain side. ’Exactly like a crazy film comedy,’ she described it. “Now she is learning Yugoslav, because she intends to return next year and visit her long-lost relatives again.”