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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16700, 8 December 1919, Page 2

There is "mrtney" in Australian pictures. provided they are bv tho right hands Dr. Abbott, who from a suburban general practico lias made his mark as a Macquarie street (Svdnev) specialist, has been long a modest and judicious collector of picture.". Apparently lie finds his collections crowded tpt hi.s space, for ho has .juM brought some of them to auction sale, and realised £21 AX) for them. The threo Hf.ders naturally fetched good prices, and a Conrad Martens nearlv as much as the best Hilder. Conrad Martens is good property in the art world now. th-jugh twer.ty years ago lie was considered merely pretty and trifling. KFliott Gruner had one fine pi'.: urc Fold. This young New Zcaj'rnder also keeps his price up (s.-fVs tho •'Sydney Daily Telegraph''}, and adds to it not only by the pure quality of his colour, line, composition "and imagination, but because lie destroys about throe in four of all the things he paints. He has no artistic vanity, and afu*r a few months judges his own canvases as if they were anyone else's. A characteristic feature of the military review held in in honour of the national fete w.is tho passage of 700 war dogs, including some wearing stripe j and decorations. Tlioy were tho object of hearty cheering by tho crowds.