Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1909 — Gambling In Old Masters. [ARTICLE]

Gambling In Old Masters.

Gambling in old masters Sir Hubert Herkomer considers is the chief cause of the miserable lot of living artists. When the wealthy buyers solely have their purses open for the catches of the auction rooms, irrespective of ai> fistic worth, pf course they, care not for modern pictures which of lite show such depreciation. Na wonder that few patrohs wll Invest in the work of living men when the market is filled with uneasiness at th*, miserable slump In painters who are barely dead, whose pictures represent enormous loss.