Alfred Gilbert, Bruges, to Spielmann

RA Collection: Archive

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.