A LUDICROUS HOAX

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 65, 25 June 1910, Page 10

A LUDICROUS HOAX

PICTURE "PAINTED" BY A DONKEY.

A picture "painted" by a donkey lias been shown at the Paris Salon do Independants, an exhibition which liiakes it a rule to accept every canvas sent in. Some students (.says" the London Express) concocted the joke at a Montmartre cafe in consequence of a bet that it would be impossible to hoax the managers of the exhibition. An easel ami a | canvas were set up, and a number of pots of paint placed ntar bv. Then a donkev wns brought in. a brush was attached to its tail and dipped into a ,paint-pot. The brush was place ! on the canvas, and one of the students beat the donkev, which brandished its tail, and the groundwork of the picture was completed. Then the brush was dipped in paint of another color, and the process was vesicated until the canvas had been covered with weird color mixtures. The "completed" canvas was entitled "And .the Sun Went Down Beneath the Adriatic," sent to the exhibition, and promntIv accented. A commissioner of oaths I was present at the painting of the "pic- ' ture" in order to ibe able to attest. to I the manner in which it was .prepared., nffid.vlt ha*, now