VENUS OUTRIVALLED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 188, 11 August 1931, Page 2

VENUS OUTRIVALLED

“Alodern women —especially Anglo Saxons—arc 50 per cent, more bcautifu and more graceful than the women ol ancient Greece, so far as they can b< judged from sculpture.” Al. Kees vai Dongen, the famous and fashionabb Parisian painter, who is now at worl on a portrait of Alanova, the Anglo Russian dancer star, expressed thi opinion recently. “The Venus de Milo would hardlj be able to get into a modern two seater, ” said AL van Dongen. “Womci to-day are slimmer and botter-propor tioned, from the artist’s point of view than their ancestors. In thirty year of painting I have learned that th most perfect types arc to bo foum among British women and Americans They are usually taller and slimine ' than the Latins. Long legs and smal : feet and hands, not too large a hca< ] and, above all, not too heavy a bust 'are indispensable to my ideal type.’