Hans Schuler Schuler s a piece of work He certainly chalked up a lot of minuments so putting him in the monuments section would certainly be defensible On the other hand the sort of piece that won him the Paris Salon prize and fetches high prices at auction to this day is probably more like this one which just sold at Christies in London for over twelve thousand dollars The most important Schuler piece in the Walters Art Museum is of this sort an extremely sensual forlorn decidedly unmonumental and almost embarrassinbly life like Ariadne writhing in an agony of sexual abandonment Very decadent very fin de si cle and apparently very appealing to the present day avoir de l argent Please do advise