The white man who disappears from civilization and returns after many years with sketches and studies and a mind stored with astonishing experiences and strange sights is a figure familiar to fiction, but very rare in real life.
Gaugin, the French painter, who went to Tahiti to slough the skin of his white civilization, is the avorld-famous instance?
_Jaroslay Hnevknovsky, a Czecho-Slovak artist, who took a passage {to Ceylon as_a stoker and went into the interior with a comrade, {where he lived for five years, is a new example, and the exhibition nion his pictures at the Leicester Gallery is arousing wide interest.
He lived amene the natives, w ing a simple-loin cloth and living om what he could shoot or fish, and came to understand these primitive people. When he returned to Prague be starved himself to escape service in the Austrian army. The Paintings, with two exceptions, were done in his garret in Pracue.
He is met a great coleurist like ion. Nearly all are nude figures with tropical backgrounds
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