Show u t f r L T 1 P rr y I i That must have been the last thing the broken heart p i iv t i- i iy y yi i cd ed artist saw be s W w it fore Death laid its WW W him him- him Icy handon hand on the picture which day to-day is valued at and which the Canadian government probably i would not sell for any sum Amazing Number of Artists Whose Works Now Bring Fabulous bit Who or Nothing of Money and Fame While They Lived OES OES it pay to be ba an artistic hl his his other works arks nOES genius gemus are arc being being eager eager- cr cae-cr- As one sees the homage thatis thatis is paid the worlds world's famous painters I sculptors and the writers writers the proud memo memo- memorials memorials rials reared to their memories the 0 I fabulous prices paid for their paintings j and statues and the tha first editions of I their works one works work one one would think there could be only one answer to this question an emphatic YES But in the minds of many who ho have given the subject careful study there is I serious senous doubt whether the great majority of artistic geniuses get any adequate return for the beauties with which the they enrich the world either world either in mone money or happiness or fame Id In a pathetically large number of In- In Instances in instances stances they are forced to struggle from cradle to grave against the most adverse circumstances The They live lice in poverty po and obscurity and recognition of their true truer worth is often delayed until long after too dead dead late them I they are arc too to give gibe either any material benefit or the intense I satisfaction that comes from recognition of work well done The dAvenel the eminent 1 French sociologist has written a book of I se Cral hundred pages devoted de to provo proving proving ing ng what hat a miserable time most of themen the themen themen men and women omen who ho are now hailed as the worlds world's orld's greatest geniuses had whilo 1110 they how ll lived how poorly they were Mere paid and how liow little their work York was appreCiated appreciated appreciated i Of course the thinks this unfortunate un- un unfortunate fortunate state of of o affairs quito quite old una unavoidable able for the good reason that the true truo t measure of any kind of genius gemus can seldom sel- sel seldom Y sel-Y dom be taken until after the lapse of o oI I more than one generation But this tIlls con con- conclusion conclusion con conclusion only strengthens his opinion that so far as the genius gemus himself is concerned It does docs not pay to be one he picture he paints of the struggles and hardships countless artists of the past have hale had to endure is one to make fond fathers and mothers fervently hope that none of their children will develop a liking for any artistic pursuit You do not have hale to go back to the dim dimand dimand dimand and distant past to find instances of men and women omen who arc are later acclaimed as the greatest geniuses d dying before the tho world orld has given their artistry any ade ade- adequate adequate adequate quate recognition Only a few years 3 cars ago poor Paul reel Peel now referred to as the distinguished Canadian died of a broken heart because the tho world would give gl his work neither the financial reward nor the ap- ap appreciation appreciation ap appreciation e cr everybody body now agrees it de- de de deserved served Ills His painting After the tho Bath which Mch P has lately been bought from flom Hungary by bythe bythe bythe the Canadian government go is valued to- to toda today to today da day at nt but Peel himself v gladly hose have ha e sold this glo glowing mg canvas for less than that number of pennies All ly Iy sought by mil mil- millionaire mil millionaire collectors and some somo of the tho very ery critics who bo never had a kind wore ora to say of them as Ion long as asPeel asPeel asPeel Peel lived nowa now are a r o shoo sho ering them with praise Had he ho lived the they sa say ho have hale been the artist of the tho century Those naked children before the fire fire- fireplace fireplace fireplace place all nil blazing with light and in such natural pos pos- postures pos pos- postures postures tures are they not wonderful They breathe they glow as they warm es They are arc as God m mad made a d de e them Could anything be mOl mole e beautiful b Paul Peel 10 cd thIs picture more than any Of bf of his hi others lIe He Ine knelt what what ha t wondrous ondrous beauty he had put into the tho play of the firelight on those two t sturdy and it broke his Ius heart that the world orld failed to see and appreciate appreciate appreciate ate it too N 4 i ir r M r Q rt u r C r P r r r r vt i iI I i C t w A Fb 4 a ati ti tiM t M tf t k a Y ll Y 14 y l r a a y lJ YA 8 e i f a ys ysra 4 y yut ut R ra Rubens's Deacent from the Cross for which the but which day to-day to-d to y could not be bought less than low How he slaved and struggled to e the skill which mado made this cam cansas as possible I IlIe He lIe painted circus wagons in Philadel Philadel- Philadelphia Philadelphia phia in III older order to pa pay his way ay while whilo studying study study- studyIng studying ing art Ills struggles with poverty po continued con con- continued after he ope open nod d n a stud o 0 over a hardware hard store in III lu his lux native city of To- To Toronto To Toronto route Work as he ho did did l ho he could make oily a bale bare living and he won von nothing in III the vv w ay ny of or widespread praise or fame His Ills death blow wa was struck v when hen be offered fob fOI for sale at nt auction two sixty of hIs the pictures the fruits of the best years ears of his Ius life They brought the whole 1010 lot only less 2000 2000 less than 35 apiece This lack of recognition n in his homo llomo city was more than the theartist's the artists artist's ai lists list's proud and sensitise nature could bear As he counted over the returns from the auction hopeless sale he decided that it was as hope hope- less to h try y lon longer er to make the world v see seethe seethe seethe the beauty he knew va was in m his lIe He went ent to ParIs Pans where here a few of his pictures had been sho shown shon n and had re- re cereda cen ed eda a little praise that made Canadas Canada's cold disregard all the harder to bear biar One Ono morning not long after his or- or orri ar nr arrival ri rival al alan in an the I lench cap capital tal they found him dead in m his has studio His Ills head tos as toward ard the easel on which IlIch tested his Ius beloved belo ed After Arter the Bath That must have ha been blen tho the last thing the broken heal hearted ted artist saw before Death laid its icy hand on the hum him the plc- plc pIcture pic picture ture turo which day to-day is valued at and which the Canadian government probably would oud not sell for any sum This Tills was in 1892 For a tong long ng time Peel and his pictures remained RIJO almost t tas as forgotten as If it he lie had never lived Then somebody discovered his Ills work and almost In instantly every Cry scrap of can can- canvas can canvas vas his Ius name was in tremendous demand Can eta ela took too advantage of s 's financial difficulties to tb purchase pui chase at a bar bargain gain figure After the Bath winch Illch had been hanging for thirty years ealS in III the NatIOnal Museum Gallery in III Budapest o y ya a V 9 o h r A 0 p Y 91 ri i Y vh v N ys K d 5 r rN fie v N t tt ta t a as a a A Y t tM d dv v N M N rr r y i 1 L fy Y i s 1 0 aN T Tr r a sr p Y P i d h 1 x r s y P PAN AN h egA e ey y b v 3 1 F 1 iii M K Ka a a am 0 m M Mr r p p I y Hr f r 7 l v v a 4 iF y j l After the sL ti rI p Bath by fX k Paul Peel Ped the 3 k r s s h t ting pah-ting pai sting to whose beauties ri the world remained blind until long of et p a s sY Y the mist had gone to his grave a broken and disappointed w s r a Is 1 ra l i ir a r ry mi min n 1 w wa wr a r y c tr Sr 7 c ct t 4 S Fe Fey y f L LS t tp 1 y y b bist p a i iFor acv nc- for Fort t AMY AMYY Y a o The Blue Boy recently sold cold bythe bys by tho t-tho the Duke of Westminster West- West ws minster for more ODO more thant than t b limes times wh what Gainsborough is thought to havo rec received ived for painting it And now In a II magnificent new gold frame tins this bit of 10 loveliness is on its tiny lay to a n place of honor in III the country where the artist who ho painted it was IS during his lifetime so cruelly denied fit fit- fitting fitting fit fitting ting I recognition Others of Peels Peel's e sic ale going at figures in m pathetic contrast to what bat he received I for them Even a avelY avery very velY small canvas cansas from irons his brush is val waI n tied at more than the whole hole lot of two two sixty paint paint- paintings iv IlIS ings brought on ont onS the auction block lock t S A value of is placed 1 The j z on Joy which hangs in inY Y the City Hall at k t Toronto It was sold at Paul Peel for cy sQ Y h a 4 h 3 But this artist of at r our Own time met no harder fate than at t-t t ninny many of the old mas- mas mas masters r rat r whose w hose life stories mike 1 such U sad 1 chap l u j cu iu j- j S 7 in the tho history of art r Albrecht Durer when ho he died left t ap jK an j estate of only Many Manya W a one of his pictures day to-day would bring that sum or more The best paid work of his whole wholeS t career was his famous Martyr f S 3 dom of St Bartholomew for i which he recessed received y In the latter years of his life Durer executed execute a large por por- portrait Nf trait in pen and Ink and crayon and was paid for it oysters During his last illness he paid R n a doctors doctor's bill ball of 5 3 with ei of his drawings Raphael although a most er- er f c acting and business like artist sold his now almost priceless M a Coronation of the tha Virgin for fory y 1000 Annibalo Carracci sold his Resurrection to a rich merch merch- merchant merchant ant for a measure of gram grain anda and a moos meas measure tire ure of wine Poi Foi the statue statte of Moses in the Church of San at Rome Michel Michel- Michelangelo Michelangelo angelo received a sum equivalent to about 1400 day to-day Rubens Ruben a king among painters and considered a very bery high priced one in his day accepted for his Descent From the Cross now in the Antwerp Museum and recently valued at more than Iran Not even Rembrandt was an nn e to the rule that artistic genius is either appreciated or inadequately and often both The pl picture ture for which he recessed received the most The NIght brought him only 14 1 His Ills usual fee for portraits was Ills his celebrated ca l las as Christ at Emmaus Em Em- maus was sold in m 1731 for the equIValent equivalent lent of 68 63 in III our money Its value alue at present is more than The Blue Boy is one of the worlds world's orId's most admired most highly prized treasures of art What the al artist originally received for it is uncertain but if he got as much as 1000 he probably probably ably thought himself well ell paid And Gainsborough doubtless would ive hl hise thought crazy anybody who ho haz haz- hazarded hazarded hazarded the prediction that long after the tho f death the Duke of Westminster would be selling this painting to an American firm of art dealers for The loa Ion of literature his has never ne fared any better than those of painting and and sculpture It always s has bas been less lucrative e than that of the great war war- warriors of lIerS-of of yesterday and the great contains of industry of day to-day because the Writer cannot set his Ius own o price or sell sell at his Ius Iown own terms The great French writer ed only 2100 for all his Ius writings La La whose hose wise Ise sayings savings about the faults and virtues of human nature aro still studied by poets and philosophers philosophers received for the invaluable in- in information in information formation he gave Ia the world something like 1400 The pIa plays plais s of the famous Cornel Corneille lie brought m in net not much more and he died in III the most abject po ert actually suffering for lack of food Le Sage whose hose plays to day arc are held e em in m high esteem by the literary world orId 11 lied ed died a II poor min man For one productIOn of his masterpiece II H Tur Tur- caret Tur-caret caret he recel received ed tI a ridiculous s 1 80 Comparatively few few of the literary literacy gem muses of the time lime are lire at all richly rewarded re And what hat they re- re re receive ceh echo cehe e in the way If of money makes males a sorry on with the Jack Dempsey's eys ey's fists earned c linn horn in III a n single year car and the In Ir ing lm Be-lm was as paid for writing the popular song My Wiles Wile's W Je Gone to the Country I D I |