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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST
£136,000 FOR 29 PICTURES CHURCH NOTICES.
ALL MASTERS" SALE OVER
IN AN HOUR.
£31,500 REMBRANDT,
In less than an hour 20 pictures were sold for just over £138,000 at
Christie's.
I am afraid this is going to be ( travel by night to some blesk York. an - unsympathetic and ill-natured shire, moor, on the off chance of
A Rembrandt WAS sold for article, writes the Very Rev. W. R. seeing the sun wearing a black £31,000. It was the "Portrait of Inge, Dean of St. Paul's.
mask for a minute or two! We a Man," formerly called "Admiral are not all astronomers, and we Tromp," and went to Messrs. are well accustomed, in this coun: Agnew, The starting bid. Wus try, to seeing the am not shining. £10,000 guineas. The spectacle seems to have been The axle was that of the James specially attractive to my own pro-Ross collection, which had been fession. But perhaps they have a brought from Montreal to prove natural sympathy with obscurant-that London is still the art centre jam in all its forms.
of the world. ··
Sometimes
no
There is something irritating in observing other people actuated by motives which to oneself are simply unintelligible. doubt, our astonishment may be mixed with a little savy. Moun- taineering, for instance, is healthy and manly occupation, though to me it seems to combine
What is the psychological ex- all the elements of discomfortplanation of the attraction of beat, cold, fatigue, and danger-sight-seeing. The hard-instinct is in their acutest form I am con- undoubtedly 000 *endo. Sir. vinced that almost all mountains Francis Galton" describes the he look best from below. I have no haviour of the Damaraland ox ambition to "wind myself too He displays no affection for his high," which Keble tells us not to fellows, and hardly seems to notice do; or, if I wish to ascend, there their existence, so long as he is is the funicular railway. A friend among them; but if he is separated of mine wittily, if profanely, im-; from the rest of the herd he shows proved a well-known verse of a lively uneasiness, and is not bymn:-
happy till be can once more bury himself among the ponderous bodies of his fellows. The instinct is no doubt very primitive, and in moderation it makes for safety. I am equally at a loss to under-But among so-called civilised men stand the pleasure of the paralytic it is hypertrophied, like most other shuffle which calls itself modern } izstincta. dancing. I thought this was an
hey climbed the steep ascent
of heaven
In peril, toil, and pain; But to me may sense be given
To follow by the train."
(in Purgatory"};-
terra
Sluggish Imaginations,
The collection' contained only · of the first order. Their assembly twenty-nine pictures, but they were
must have coat at least £100,000,
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The aalo room was crowded long before the sale began, and many ot dealers in London, on the Coatic-FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, the representatives of leading art eat; and America had to be con doorway. Some of them could not tent with positions in the packed obtain a view of the pictures, and bids of fifteen and twenty thousand guineas came casually from outside the hall
Burne-Jones Slump.
two drawings by Burne-Jones,
The sale did not open well, for)
Down" and "Night, went to Messrs. Leggatt for 20 guineas
Thirty years ago they brought in 1,350 guine
There was another notable de cline. Fortuny's A Morocco Car pet Warehouse," which fetched. 1,400 guineas in the Quilter sale in 1875, went for 340 guineas.
Bonington's Picture of Fisher- folk," on the other hand, advanced
genius who died at 27..
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Franz Hals's "Portrait of Man," after an opening bid of 500 guineas, was sold for 5,600 guineas to Messrs. Kaoedler. It will prob ably go to America.
invention of the twentieth century, But, besides this, Horace observ until, to my astonishment, I founded very truly that we realise much from 1,700 guiness, paid for it in it accurately described by Dante more vividly what we so than 1999 to to-day's valuation of 3,000
what we hear. Persons with slug-guineas. This was nearly a record. gish imaginations do not get much price for the artist-the English boy pleasure from descriptions. They will go to see a political or pulpit orator, although they are too far off to hear comfortably what he aaye, and though a full report of his speech or sermon will be in the papers next morning. This of course explains the attraction of the "theatre," and still more of the cinemia.
Come si valge, con le piante alretic
ed intra se, donna, the balli, e piede in nanzi piede Q pena mette. ("As a lady, who is dancing taras round with feet close to the ground and to each other, and hardly, puts foot before foot.") "As for music, I wish I could feel properly indignant with those heretical mystics of the Middle Ages who said that anthems were "nil nisi, "clamor interni.". Tastes differ, perhaps fortunately.
Dr. Johnson, after his only day in the hunting-feld, during which he un- expectedly kept his seat, said, Sir, it illustrates the paucity of huinan pleasures that this should be reckoned as one of them."
But in the name of commen sense, what is the pleasure of mere sight-seeing! A McDougall, the psychologist, says:
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A Fair Woman "-£17,550, Romney's portrait of Lady Sulli- van, painted in 1779 and deamed worthy in 1804 of a place in the AT THE EASTERN EXTENSION, exhibition of tair women," WAB bought by Messrs. Knoedler for £17,830.
Aan Fitzpatrick" went to Messrs. Reynolds's "Portrait of Lady Agnew for £19,42%.
A third reason for wishing to come near a distinguished man is the, curious fascination which some Turner's picture of "Yepice, the successful men seem to radiate Dogana and Salute started with abid of twenty thousand guiness. from their persona. This quality and the hammer did not fall until is very difficult to secount for. The 20,000 guiness was called. This was emotion is no doubt brought by the record price for a small Turner in English auction rooms. The admirer
more than imparted by the picture was sold in 1800 for B,200 great man. It is part of the snob-guineas. bishness of human nature-a sort of inferiority complex which dis poses people to wriggle and fawn before great success, like a dog in the presence of his master. This again bas once been a useful instinet, promoting discipline and obedience,
Napoleon, while he was success ful, not afterwards, had this gift to an extraordinary degree. "Ons day, in the midst of the Council of
The other Turner in the collec▲ tion," City of Utrecht," advanced from 6,400 guineas, paid at the Price sale in 1888, to 8,500 guineas.
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the master who waxes gracious'." a handsome dole on condition of not doing any work, one wonders how it is that the population can not only live with out doing anything, but can choose such a singularly fatuous way of doing nothing.
The London Mob. Writers like Le Bon have spoken with the utmost severity of the crowd; ita stupidity, its suggesti bility, cowardice, ferocity, and so
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