ROYAL ACADEMY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1937, Page 9

ROYAL ACADEMY

THE SALES THIS SEASON

At the summer show of the Hoyal Academy, which ends this week, 248 works have been sold for a total of £11,200. This compares with 281 works sold for £12,100 last year, said a writer in the "Daily Telegraph" of August 5.

Purchases by members of the public have remained approximately the same in value. The difference of £900 in this year's total is accounted for by a "fall in the value of purchases under tho Chantrey Bequest. , At last year's summer show Chantrey purchases totalled £2300. This year the eight works bought under the terms of the bequest totalled £1400.

Despite the heavy falling-off in attendances during the opening month of the show owing to the bus strike, the attendance figures do not compare badly with those of former summer exhibitions.

Outstanding features of the show have been an increase in purchases o£ sculpture (about forty pieces were sold); popularity of "still life" in pictures as shown by the purchases; many purchases by visitors from the U.S.A. and foreign visitors generally. Sculpture has gone to the U.S., Switzerland, and France); renewed interest in water-colours.

Stylised animal studies proved popular among the sculpture sold. Provincial galleries, mainly in the north, bought thirteen works, for a total of £1700, apart from the Chantrey Bequest purchases. .

Dame Laura Knight's scene from the London Palladium, which fetched £1260, remained the high record in price for an individual sale this year. The same artist also sold "The Gyppos" to the Ferens Gallery at Hull for £367.

Mr. J. Mackintosh Patrick sold "The Ettrick Shepherd" and "Midsummer, East Fife," to the Manchester City Art Gallery and the Aberdeen Art Gallery respectively for 250 guineas each.

A Chinese girl, Miss Shoupi Yang, who has been in -England for a year, and was exhibiting at the Academy for the first time, sold two works painted, on silk.

The president fSir William Llewellyn) sold two small landscapes, although hir, reputation lias largely been made as a portrait painter.