Mr. Shaw Again
REMEMBER one amusing, and profitable stunt, that Bernard Shaw had a hand in. He was twitting some artists with the fact that they didn’t sell their work because they asked too high a price for it. If they sold it cheaply, their reputation suffered, so they held out for big prices, and had most of it left on their hands. A woman painter, who specialised in flower studies, whose husband was a wellknown painter, too, accepted Bernard Shaw’s challenge to hold a show of her pictures with every one at the same low fixed price. Harriet Cohen, the famous pianist, who had a lovely home, offered her drawing room for the show, and about fifty paintings, Mower studies, were hung. Every picture was priced at £5, and every picture was sold. I may say that Bernard Shaw himself was on the mat when the door opened, and got the pick of the bargains.-- | (Nelle. Scanlan, "Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax," 2YA, November 22.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 5
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167Mr. Shaw Again New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 5
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