THOUSANDS FOR ART

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22610, 29 June 1935, Page 11

THOUSANDS FOR ART

A WEEK IN LONDON An art sales week which in some respects recalled the boom of a few years ago ended in London recently with a total 611111 realised of at least £IBO,OOO. Outstanding sales were:— Joel pictures, silver and furniture, at Christie's, £81,304; other properties from these rooms, £20,000. A picture collection at Sotheby's, £14,000, and hundredweights of old silver Christie's large gallery was uncomfortably crowded for the sale of the late Mr S. B. Joel's collection of early Engish pictures removed from his London residence. Considering that Mr Joel bought at the time when American competition for our. works of art was at its highest, the sale detinintely showed that the market is always ready to absorb the best works. Fifty-four pictures realised a total of £0(3,420. The highest figure paid was £12,075, by Lord Duveen, for John Hoppner's | beautiful portrait of his wife Phoebe, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1787. The picture was originally in the collection of the artist's son. He sold it for a few pounds to the family of J. H. B. Christie, and in the lattcr's sale itchanged hands for £9705. OLD AND NEW VALUES. Other sales, compared with figures paid when last the pictures were offered, were: — Hoppner's " The Hurdy Gurdy Player," £5040 (Barbizon House) £7027 in 1910. Hoppner's portrait of " Lady Mary Greville," £1305 (Pawsey and Payne) —£Bloo in 1902. Lawrence's portrait of " Miss Emily de Visiue," £9975 (Gooden and Fox) £llO2 in 1904. Morland's " The Public House Door," £IB9O (Barbizon House)—£l7Bs in 1911. "The Carrier's Stable," £1470 (Barbizon House) —£1155 in 1902. "The Bull Inn," £1417 10s—£801 in 1902. Komney's portrait of Lady Hamilton as a "Welsh Girl," £5400 (Barbizon House)—£22os in 1892. Romney's " Caccandra," £I2OO (Wade)—£B92s in 1929. A portrait of Miss Boone and Master Boone, for which Romney was paid £75, sold for £3675 (F. Howard). ■ Gainsborough's portrait of the children of Dr Rise Charleton, of Bath, changed hands at £34G5 (Vicars); and Raeburn's "Mrs Rumeden," £1305 (Barbizon House). At the end of the Joel sale 70 pictures from other sources were offered, and brought a total of £12,338. Raeburn's portrait of Mrs John Pattison, of Kelvingrove, Glasgow, realised £2IOO (Barbizon' House), as against £SOBO in the Sedehneyer sale, Paris, 1906.