ART SALES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 9

ART SALES

Bright Collection in Waters and Oils OFFERED AT AUCTION Aucklanders proved to be only fair seekers of art when a collection of nearly 100 water-colours and oils was offered at auction yesterday afternoon. AN English artist brought the collettion to New Zealand for disposal. It was a delightful child study iu water-colour by R. Barnes which brought the highest price of the sale, £ 8 10s. The title was “The Prince and the Maid’’ and the handling of the study was extremely delicate. “Blossomtime,” by Sir David Murray, R.A., P.R.1., revealing thorough treatment of tints, brought £7 10s, the highest price tor an oil-painting, but F. Pelus’s pleasant painting, “A Tavern Interior with Cavaliers and Maids,” roused attention. It sold for £7. This was the price obtained for another study in oil, “The Old Gann 1 . Keeper,” by P. Ryder, R.C.A.. and a pair of Filclii’s Egyptian subjects in water-colour. A painting attributed to LudovicJ, “The Rivals,” sold for £2 10s. Several notable works were cleared for more than £5. There were S. Pinto’s depiction in oil of a kitchen interior, which so d for £5 10s; “A Farm Near Wooton Park, Surrey,” by A. Dawson, R.W.S., for £5; Frank Stone’s “The Love Letter,” £5; Sir Alfred East’s oil-painting of a Japanese village, £5 15s; Edwin Roberts’s oil, “Maid of the Mill,” £5; E. F. Brentnall s water-colour. “A Pool Harbour at Sunset,” £5; and a harvesting scene in water-colour by A. YV. YVeedon, £ 5 ss. A fine work by Sir Ernest Waterlow, R.A.. P.R.W.S., “Near Haslemere,” had the fragrance of the English countryside. Its price was £6 6s. SINCLAIR’S WORKS The English artist, A. Sinclair, was well represented and there was even a work of his of a corner of On«hunga. The highest price for his water-colours was £ 4 10s. The study was a thatched cottage in Hereford. Continental and English coastal and country scenes, studies of individuals, harbour glimpses, animgls and birds, views on canals, sandstorms—the collection was varied. But only a fair percentage of a pleasing collection was sold. Two water-colours by De L’Aubyniere were moderately priced. A River Beene” brought £4 10s and “A Woodland Scene,” £4. F. W. Scarborough, whose water-colour subjects leave such vivid impressions, had one. work, “At Greenock.” which brought only £3. Prominent names were plentiful on the list of artists, but Auckland scarcely has a reputation as an avid art-buying community. The works sold yet included the outstanding studies. Most of the water-colours and oils were distinctly modern, but the subjects proved that artists of the present time have a nice sense of period painting.