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MORE GEMS FROM ITALY
GRAHAM SALE RECALLED
"HATS OFF" INCIDENT
CHINA MAIL.
Opportunities.
Yet, strange to rolate, his chief prize cost him only 55 guineas, and when I showed Sir Joseph Duveen my Benson catalogue hé wrote oppoalte this purchase of Cosimo Tura's circular panel of "The Flight Into Egypt" the ex pressive word, "Marvellous."
cannot help thinking that, if Disraeli had been alive in 1888,
A tail silk hat is now generally the National Gallery would have acknowledged to be more of a sym-been represented at the Graham bol of reverence than is the bowler. salefunds or no funds. For did Every man can associate it with be not make that supreme effort in memories of grave or poignant oc- the Alexander Barker sale, 1874, casions, relieved by those of gay or by which the National Gallery be dutiful salutation.
came possessed of fourteen mighty "Hats off!" will be the quiet mot Italian pictures, including "The d'ordre when the sublime master-Virgin at Prayor," by this self- pieces ara confronted at the ap same Ferraresc master? proaching Italian exhibition at His Imagination would have leapt Burlington House, as it was-before at the thought of obtaining another when men-pot usually moved-Tura, forming one of the five were awed by the devout simplicity tondini, which used to decorate the of the Flemish Primitives, and con.altar of St. Maurelio at Ferrara, ducted themselves as if they stood two of which are still there, while jin some holy chapel.
a third la at Harvard and a fourth
How many Victorians, however, at Boston. are alive to-day who were among
Disrael would have remembered that case-hardened company in an also that two of his prizes In the auction room, forty-three years ago. Barker sale were noble panels by when 200 silk hats were reverently Carlo Crivelli, bought for 750gns. raised at a picture, not by an Italian He would therefore have seen to it old master, but by an Anglo- that the National Gallery should Italian who had been dead only four have the exquisite example in this years?
Graham collection, which Mr. Ben- son snapped up for a paltry 125gns. sisted on the acquisition of Giovanni I think, too, that he would have in-"
Bellini's impressive -altar-piece,
F
Salutation to Rossetti
I confess that I was not present at that William Graham sale it Christie's on April 3, 1886, when this unusual event happened, but an painted in the master's old age, which was another bargain at ancient frequenter told me that it
670gna.
A.C. was the most compelling auction moment in his memory. After that lion among dealers, William Agnew, had given 800 gaineàs for
BRITISH TALKIES
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's exquisite Guaranteed Release for
"Ecce Ancilla Domini," he stood up, and, dofing his silk hat, announced that he had been acting for the National Gallery. And every other silk hat immediately was lifted in austere salutation.
the World
Rugby, Yesterday.
By an agreement which has been (signed between one of the leading There are always compensating British companies engaged in the entries in the books of behaviour, {production of talking pictures and and this Rossetti incident was dis- the Radio Keith Orpheum Corpora- counted when a similar company alition of America, the two concerns Christie's hissed a work by Whistler will be jointly responsible for a when placed on the auction ensel. Jaeries of British talking pictures, Now there were two very re to be produced in this country, and markable William Graham sales in distributed throughout America and 1886, and if, at the time, the first, the world generally,
in which the market went mnd over Each company will bear half the the pictures by Rossetti and Burne cost of every production, and share Jones, was the talk of the art world. equally, in the profits. The pictures the second, consisting of many will be known as Associated Radio examples by the Italian Primitives, Pictures and they will have a guar has outinated the other in fame,aniced
release throughout the
If only the dealers could have fore- world. seen the taste of the future there Mr. Basil Dean, Chairman of the would have been many occasions British company. Associated; Talk- | when they would have raised their ing Pictures, Ltd., said yesterday silk hats in this second sale.
that in accordance with this agree-
As the previous article in the ment the pictures would be by "World of Ari" Page on the hidden British authors, and would be made Italian treasures of the Ally col. in Britain by British artlats, with lection aroused much notice, it the assistance from time to time, if should be of Interest to recall this jointly seen fit, of Americans.-Bri- second William Graham sale when tish Wireless Service. the works of carly Italian masters,
WHERE
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National Gallery Trustees William Graham had long been known as a shrewd judge of art, and
Nacking, Yesterday.
to-day Speaking to Prosamen
it may be surmised that another cogent reason for his election to Dr. C. T. Wang declared that.com- a National Gallery trusteeship inmunications regarding the Sino- 1884 was that he was supposed to Soviet preliminary conference at be harbouring beneficent intentions. Nikolsk had just been received. We know the mighty bequest made In examining them the Gov- by Sir Richard Wallace, who was ernment officials had been sur- elected at the same time. But not prised to find that the delegates only did Graham leave "now" to had discussed numerous issues in the nation, but the National Gallery addition to the controversy over was unrepresented at his sale.
the CER. Dr. Wang stated that There was an effective financial such discussions were entirely reason for this absence, in that outside the scope of the prelimin grants for national purchases had ary conference, and Mo Teh-hwel, been suspended on account of the China's chief delegate
to the special vote, some time before, of formal conference at Moscow, had £87,500 for the Blenheim Raphael been ordered to Nanking, before and Vandyck.
leaving for Moscow.-Router.
As it fell out, however, a future trustee, the late Robert H., Benson, literally made hay in this Graham- Bale, although he, in turn, over looked the needs of the National Gallery when he sold his collection of early Italian art to Sir Joseph, Duveen, for some hundreds of thousands in 1927. ..
Redress was made by Sir Joseph himself, with his wanted generosity, as he immediately gave the choice. of any picture in the Benson col- lection to the trustees, who there- upon picked Correggio's "Christ's
Farewell to Hia Mother," A masterpioca of the painter's early period, selected as being worthy of hanging as a pendant to Titian's moving Noli Me Tangere."
Robert Benson's Purchases In compiling a very crudite catalogue of his fine collection: Mr. Benson paid a handsome tribute tó Graham's flair and to his Ipatine. tive love and discernment of 70-
bility of conception in art.” He was up and doing, therefore, in the 1880/salo, having as his auction agent that pleturesque and vivacious dealer (who often laughed last In many a transaction); · Martin, Colnaghi. Altogether more than ona-eighth of his final collection was acquired in this Graham saldives It should not be presumed that he said ridiculous sums for worke
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