New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-04
ART NEWS AND COMMENT
TIE WEEK IN ART ClRCLEA
NOTES OF THE ExHIBIrIoSs-AgT YiwS nE22 AN,
ABROAD.

tho usual routine varied by the Seney exhibition
arrival OF Remhrandss The Glider and tie opening OF
the first Prize Fund exhibition. This year will bring tis
exhibition and sale OF Mrs. Moreins collection an en-
tirey novel exhibition Of paintings by the French i
pressionists Prize Fund exhibition which, 1t X To la
hoped will be stronger and more than 81,
first and exhibition of which great things pror.
isei by tbs Society OF American Artists. The regulr
exhibitions of tewDtcr spring and autumn OF 1888 hsys
contained the usual proportions OF eo0d bad and IN.
different work with little nothing OF sufficiently cy
traorlinay qualify TO be clearly remembered by
visitors to these collections OF oils Or wstercOors. Each
year witnesses increase in the produciveness OF ts
artists and yet has been proved that they su
tain two uniformly good oil exhibitions in this city at tao
same time Turning to the commercial side OF art,
which becomes and more important IL sats
TO predict that the sales Of $50 will dc ettor than those
OF the last two years 1t also probable that tho
| 30 per cent tariff upon works Of art Will hot live
| through another year
The next Union League Cub exhibition, to be opened
at the annual meeting January IL, will be the las.
under the direction OF che present art committee The
guests Of the club have reason to remember this
tee gratefully, for the exhibitions OF last and
spring were of remarkably high character. Tho CON-
ing exhibition will probably be fitting ending OF tho
| committees excellent record. For the benefit Of art
students and artists there will be printed thousand
caris OF admission to the gallery for Sunday January
| IT. from 10 a. m to 10 p. IN. This new departure is
generally profitable to those who are Immediately inter-
ested in art Whatever educational value the paintings
may pOssess Will thus be shared by practical art work
ers like the members Of the Gotham Art Students" as
well rs by artists For these cards application should DO
made to Mr.. Horace L. Hochss, secretary OF the Art
Committee Union League Club. On January % the new
committee will hold its first exhibition in connection
with the annual Ladies Reception" aud from past
perence it seems safe 10 predict display OF uncommon
interest
Messrs KnOcdler & Co. will shortly exhibit Mr.. E. f.
Weekss Salon painting, "The last Voyage, Souvenir
Of the Gauges" The picture represents two llindoo
fakirs crossing the sacred stream Que near his end bat
struggling 1.-Two until the boat reaches tie further
lank The sky and water intensely blue, aud Ia tho
background is cluster OF domes and miRarcts. In tag
same gallery society" picture Is to be exhibited,
large painting OF the Rockaway Hunt in the eld by Jan
CheImInsai containing portraits OF eral members
| The hundred proofs Of Braciuemonds etching after
La Rixe with MeissOniers signed remarque, appear 10
have been promptly akon according dIa tch
| from ~ Petit. OF the hundred twenty five were seat
Messrs Schaus Co., and six to Messrs hnoedler *
ca. The remarque which can almost be covered with
silver dollar is equestrian portrait OF Messonier
pacing along road with trees in the background The
| lines are faint and magnyibg glass is servcsable in
following the delicate precision OF the drawing. Tie
portrait OF goes for little aud the stout horse
| man with full white beard wearing highcrowncd
Derby hat Is different person from the MessoD.er OF
the photographs. The microscopic signature Is mono
gram, L. VI.
The injuries made by Messrs. Charles p. Curtis and
cyrus W. Lawrence show that American artists are
practically upaum0us in their opposition to the 30 per
cont t,rR upoo works OF art In fact this opposition APP
pears general among those who are interested In
art that t is almost impossible to find any persons i'm
n,ecllaely concerned who defend the present tariff.
American artists residing in France and others resident
Ia Italy have presented petitions for the abolition OF thn
tariff and Messrs Curtis and Lawrence have received
some 600 protests from artists in this country. one
curious phsse is that this tariff has
ceeed in doing what claimed for It. 10 has not KEEP.
out cheap and trashy foreigG works Tie tu'iness OF
selling daubs In oils or water c0lors at mlnor auction
rooms continued despite tho tariff Tue importation
OF import mt paintings has diminished sIch hopeessy
Inferior pictures the coors imported by at least
one spccnlator auction sales have been banised.
and II probable that the sales OF snowy pictures ot
this class which be bought at Low prices interfere
more or less with sales at the exhibitions IL Is also
am aren't that the values assigned 10 these Pictures for
the purpose ofimportation mast be next to nothing
ia said that an amateur time since brought
with his baggage water color which had cost $1,000.
Ia the Custom House IL appraised at $50 the resuIt
hene payment OF duty OF Sl5, instead Of $780, story
which illustrates the difficulty OF correctly appr4lsiug
good pictures well as bad. A Ia hign ri valorem
duty has failed TO 9esp Out loreyn trts tne suggestion
$50 would certainly Iupd decrease in the number
OF dubious water cOlora ana oils imported from France
italy. Other objections to the present tarn have
Leen freq lenty presented aud need be repeated
here. Tue fact that the tariil has not accomplished
what it, advocates claimed FOR 1t Is new phase Of tho
discussion. But In order to effect its abolition those WHO
are interested nust agree upon substitute Hd taelr
choice Is not yet unanimous Many artists wish the dny
removed entirely. others favor small sd yaloren duty,
and with the New York dealers in believing
that specific duty would DO most advantageous There
be feeling that any opposition to change w
come from Western aud Southern Congressman aud Il
has been suggested matter OF policy. that any bin
for the abolition OF the 30 per cent tarf should he intro
uln fnnf fta Aasf
at least is not associated with the buyiug Of costly
foreign paintings The important thing at present sa
general agreement upon substitute for the present
duty When this agreement Is reached It may be said
auIhortatlvely that ths expenses OF collecting sgna-
lures throughout the country tn petition embodviBs
the bill agreed upon will DO pro 1pty met IN this city
| With perhaps less than the usual naccuracy Of the
English man writing upon American affairs Lps t-on
High French has lost In the late Mr. Vanderbilt B
best customer. His gallery cluld' compare IN modern
works with the most celebrated modern collections ana
is only surp assed perhaps by that brOugh; together
with .Gch uuerrlns taste and Judgment By W. Van Prset
OF BRUSSELS the private secretary and fayorte
the King OF the elgans. But the latter. Of price
less value amassed at comparatively small Outlay
whereas the American Cruesns threw his orders into ths
market, regardless OF cost lie posSesset two splendid
great beauty aud one OF the last pictures he bought was
an Alfred stevens painted To order, and representing
work since tho imr osltion OF prohbitiyr duty at tho
other side OF the Atlantic the demand for french pant
ngs by American collectors has almost ceased ana van
| derb was the Only VINO did not allow an addition
OF 30 per cent TO their cost to check his fancy lo them
u
gloom over world, all the deeper because he had
beou expected here this winter. and heaven and ha
de llers-Dnly know on how many eases we're temptS
tons lying In wait for his coming" IL Is hardly neers
say say that the Vanderbilt gallery contains seTon
examples OF MISSIONER Instead OF two, and only Two
paintings by COrot, neither of great beauty" As M
Nanderbirs paintings nearly all purchased heO;e
the Imposition OF the 80 PER cent tariff. the writer's
mOralizng becomes decidedly polntless The throwing
orders nlO the market regardless OF cost IL OF pe
with other Vanderbilt myths cuerent In Encland ihe
late Mr. Vanderbilt extraordinarily liberal ob
not regardless" buyer
The discussion OF high prices pad FOR paintings which
laggeis little after the sale or the Benuen dd0nns
became old story has been revived ny the sale OF the
late Lord Dudley's Raphael, The Three Graces 10 the
Duo dAumale. The price paid. $4,000 Is beeVedto
DO the largest given for picture Of this Size quo
painting beng only seven inches square. TIE Inrce
Graees Is counted among Raphaels rather juyenle
productions, but 1t is described as distinguished ~