A COMPOSITE PICTURE.
PAINTER AND AUTHOR AT ODDS. LONDON, February 24. An amusing artistic imbroglio has arisen out of Mr. Sisley Huddleston, the author, permitting Mr. C. R. AV. Nevison to paint a picture in his sit-ting-room in Paris. Nevison presented the picture to the Tate Gallery. Later, unknown to Huddleston, he withdrew the canvas and painted a similar picture to which he added the figure of a nude woman reclining on a coueh. Mr. H. G. Wells bought the picture and presented it to the. Tate Gallery. Huddleston visiting the Gallery saw thp picture and, horrified, wrote to Nevisou: “It is gratifying to think that my rooms have a permanent place in the London Museum, but what about the nude woman on the coueh? You will agree that there was none there. These days are overfull of scandalmongering, when allegation are lightly made and accepted tragically. Therefore I must vigorously repudiate the suggestion of a full-size naked female medel. These things may be permitted to artists, but not in a respectable writing man’s studio.”—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 26 February 1927, Page 7
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177A COMPOSITE PICTURE. Wairarapa Age, 26 February 1927, Page 7
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