Reference code
SP/7/68
Title
Alfred Gilbert, Bruges, to Spielmann
Date
16 Sep 1907
Level
Item
Extent & medium
2 pieces
Content Description
Bemoaning his destiny. His great fault was taking up art, "penniless from the outset - the same at the end!" He has tried to live up to an ideal which died three hundred years previously. "Art for art's sake" is an anachronism.