ART TREASURES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 10

ART TREASURES

LONDON AS A “CLEANING HOUSE.” An interesting feature of the sale of the Oppenheimer collection, which ended in July with a. realised total of £141,748, is the proof which the result affords of the position held by London as an art market, says the Times. Throughout the sale the dealers and collectors of two continents were in constant attendance, and it is generally admitted that so such total would have been possible on the Continent or in the United States of America. The result of this sale should lead to the appearance of other famous collectors in the sale room, for in spite of the successful dispersals of the Barnet Lewis, Lansdowne and Brownlow collections, owners have shown a distinct reluctance to entrust their treasures to the ordeal of public sale. Few collections during the past decade have passed the £lOO,OOO mark, and one has to go back to the memorable dispersals of the collection of Sir George Holford, sold in 1927 and 1928 for nearly £750,000, to find one that has surpassed the present dispersal.