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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 12

V Sir Hubert; v'ori. Herkoraer,'.id the course of a noteworthy address on ', "Ambition • in Art,"- at' : the; Royal Academy, laid strong emphasis of condemnation on the "gambling spirit which inflates the.prices of pictures by, dead men," at. the 'expense, of: living artists,"and referred, to the 'fact that while Millet sold his;"An£elns".:for £40; it was oventuall.v acquired bVa collector in ' f.Kr> ,United, States for £32;000.: -The;condition' of. the rank and.filo.of artists,' who .held the balanoo of a country's art,"was, he snid most alarming, and it had become so because of the modern, gamble in 01d ; Mastere It was monstrous that art should-be utir-sed for speculation in the auction room: If there must bo this prido. of. price, this gambling, he won d suMest that the heirs of-the dead .artist should benofit by this form of "sport" If thoro were no heirs or distant relatirar then he: suggested that the State bv law' should apply a • percentage of the ex'travagnht price,to the purchase of works by livinir artists:-/ .*■■•,• ~b

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