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Show .Great Painter's Last Days Pathetic. The philosopher may ruminate prof itably over the fact that a picture by Degas has just been Bold In Paris foi $85,000, while Degas himself, old and nearly blind, is living in misery in a fifth-floor attic practically without furniture. fur-niture. Degas is eighty-four years old and without resources. A correspond ent of the London Express visited his room and found him out. He had gone to the sale of his picture, from curiosity, for he had no interest, in It When he came in he said: "Yes, went 'to the sale. The figure was a high one. I heard people talk of the life in the dancers on my canvas. Foi me all the canvases, all the faces, all the eyes around me were dancing. was a painter, was I not? I am noth ing but a blind old man now." Perhaps Per-haps there was something in Whistler's Whist-ler's contention that a painter should always have some proprietary rights over his creations. At leaBt the idea contains a sentiment that should be respected, a sentiment, let us hope, not altogether without its appeal to the man who had just received $85,00C for the work of an artist who actually lacked bread to eat. |