THE ROYAL ACADEMY
AIOST-DTSCUSSFD PICTURE. (Rec. Afav 3. 11.5 p.tn.) London, Alay 3. The Roval Academy pictures are fewer an<l smaller Ilian last year. Naturally attention is attracted to Sargeant’s portrait of (he Alarchioness Curzon of Kedleston, under which a laurel wreath has been placed. This i« one of the last pictures he painted. The most discussed picture is Sir William Orpen’s “Alan Versus Beast,” showing the interior of a booth in which q man is vanquished by a bear. The most prominent figures are a tamer and a niorikev, but the beasts appear to be idealised compared with the men and women spectators, who arc portrayed a<*thc real beasts of the scene It was difficult to get near the picture veste-dav. The general comment was that the bear was the most decent thing in the picture. Sir William Orpen declared that the picture ts intended to convev only what it por-trays.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 182, 4 May 1925, Page 9
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