What's to Become of Harris? What's to Become of Harris?
Mr. Stuart Harris, whose Nude Reclining 1963 in the Summer Exhibition at the Academy was' singled out by the art critic of The Times ,as 'perhaps the most striking of the newer-looking works and described by Eric-Nevjton in the
Guardian as `at least stimulating and at most thought-provoking, is hoping that the sale of the work will lead to a major exhibition of his work very soon. He is asking £500 for it. But who is Mr. Harris? The editors of Private Eye seem temporarily to have fought off press suspicions that he is either Mr. Rushton or Mr. Ingrams or Mr. Fantoni or perhaps a combina- tion of all three of them. But why the secrecy? Surely. if the authorship were declared, amid the boom in TW Year Books and LPs and Mr. Rushton's column in the Sunday Mirror, the painting might be expected to fetch more rather than less than £500. But the real question is how far the critics themselves have entered into the hoax. After all, The Times's conclusion is a shrewd enough comment on Private Eye: `Though the satire is thin and conveys no clear sense of aim a certain brittle up-to-dateness of
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