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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 22 August 1908, Page 13

OIL AND WATER-COLOUR PAINTINGS. On Monday next, commencing at 2 p.m., Messrs. T. Kennedy Macdonald, Ltd., will offer for sale, by public auction, with roservo, a very fine colleotion of oil • and water-colour paintings by Mr. W. G. Baker. To art connoisseurs this event should afford au exceptional opportunity of augmenting their private collections. A special gaslight display of the collection, which numbei-8 100 pictures, was given by tho auctioneer at the Exchange Auction Rooms, between 7.30 and 9 o'clock last evening, and the pictures will again bo exhibited at tho same timo this evening, so that art collectors may be given every opportunity of forming an estimate of the merit of tho collection before the date of the sale. The pictures aro all landscape studies, sorno in watercolours, some in oils, of various sizes, and do-, picting scenic studies from almost every beauty spot in' New Zealand. Two very striking pictures are those of the Otira Gorge, both very large studies in oils. There are no fewer than 21 studies representative of the Wellington, Wairarapa, and Manawatu districts, faithfully and artistically, depicted. The artist, in his search for subjects, has penetrated tho South Island lake" district, the Southern fiord-land, tho Marlborough Sounds, tho Northern won. derland: and he has gone along the Main Trunk line to Auckland, and out to tho Great Burrier Island, The collection is well worth a visit.