New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-09
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS.
THE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.
CLOSE OF THE ART sEAsoN--AUruMN ExHrsi'
n1ons-NEws FROM ABROAD.


AItbourb two exhibitions remain open the art season
"a practically at all end. There are no $500 Vi
mixtures and but few visitors, and the artists Hon-
selves are rapidly leaving the city for EUROPE OF i
The country Tho exhibition Of the Society Oh Auoai.
can Artists will be closed this week with the results
,n,.h ho,a he.r expectod Only three pictures have
h.on sold and the attendance has been insignincahI
The Prize Fund Exhibition viii remain open unui
July !.
Thea, .u,,,,,p crbhltIons are announced thus far
The first WILL be an exhibition OF American pictures d.
the Fifth Avenue Galleries in September Inc pHso
exhibition will BIO opened at the American Ar '"i
Ieries probably about November /, and the hcauenS
exhibition will be opened to the public on November
49, few sales have been arranged for out 10 HI
noupcements OF consequence arc madc as yet
Thor, are no asummcr changes at the Metropol-
tan Museum and none arc needed since II would be
difficult to make any change for the better Arrense
ments have been made for the temporary aecommoda
ton OF the schools in the basement, an unfortunate ne
cessy Il is 10 be hoped that the northern "lng oi
tho Museum building may be erected without long
deIay In the autumn tho Museum will probably 90
closed for time, reopenng with new loan eAhioi-
! ton.
The National Academy OF Design has issued circulars
furnishing information regard TO the eighth autumn
exhibition Lists Of pictures and sculptures must DC
sent 10 the secretary at the Academy on or before
| October o. Works will be received at tho Academy
| from October 90 70 october 30, inclusive. Inc
Academy cannot in any manner look after the coliec'
ton or return OF city exhibits" The vanishing daNs
will be November IA and 10, and the press view" VIII
| be on Friday, November j., after IL o'clock The
public exhibition will begin on Monday, November Is,
! and close on December ID.
The sccretan sale holds the attention OF NowYork
dealers and amateurs and a matter OF course all
ParsS Is deeply Interested The Tribune has already
mentioned the moro important pictures. The sale
will be held in the latter part Of the month under The
n,ana gcment Of Messrs Boussod, Valadon & Co.. who
have charge OF the modern pictures and Charles sede
meyer. who occupies himself with the old masters
in recent article in Figaro Albert Woln declares
that It Is necessary to 60 back TO the Demdoh sale
I'm order 10 find anything which the sale Of the Secr
tan collection may be compared /" For the first part
OF the SALE says Wolf. the battle Will rage ABOUT
works by Hotbema, de HoOgb Franz Halls RuyodaeL
Remb andt, Van Dyck, Cuyp, Metzu, Velasquez' Hob
beIn Gerard DOW ostade Van der Nicer and the rive
Senses by Tensers which sold for $1,000 francs
! A. tho pemdoR sale Among the moderns ". Mcts-
sonnier counts no less than thIrty-one paintings and
water colors one OF which, the 'Curassers brought
800 900 francs or 600 Among the six pic'urHs
by Theodore Rousseau IS the celebrated Charcoa Burn
Cr's Hut a mastery work. All the other mo"ern
works arc Of the same quality. There are six superb
.yamples OF Decsmps, among them the Clever
| Monkeys, the 'Fruudcur and Joseph Sold by bis
| Brethren e noble picture. once belonging 10 mo
Princess de Sagan who sold It for 100000 lheie arc
choice C6T7ot,, the DaubIgnys, tho nine Troyons'
which represent an enormous sum, the pet
urcs BIZ pIat ard Frmenin, and finally
! the five Mlllcts There is, as We know Inc
| .Angelus,' for which an American has offered
100000 Shall We have tho chagrn OF seeing the
| 'Angelus' go TO New.York or Baltimore winch
Elrcady own moro OF the finer works OF hiilet than
| all France, for America a5sorbs everything ana
returns nothing
America continues wolr. "s in q state Of ex.
citsmcut. From the first day when they have an
nounccd this sale the picture business has stopped
shor, across the Atlantic They watt they reserve
themselves, they keep their dolllrs for The grea'
Partisan event Of tho end Of June. Our admirable
! Exposition viii Their see, among other stohisaH's
ypeetaccs the assembling a. the same point oil all the
men who pay $4,000 for a picture ss inuueFeiuS I"
". take "A cup OF chocolate. What pity mat We
cannot exhibit these mlonAlres for the benefit OF the
poorl II would be a nne opportunity Of rcshEins
i,rrc aim what would be the street OF cairo
tho Japanese village, Buffalo Bhl In comparison
with this encampment OF the milltonares come u
| Paris for tho secrean sale, and what enormous TO
,eip,. tho Exposition souh have II one couh eAhiot
them at night by the electric light with mar ~''
stage setting tho gallery Of machinery on one SIDE inc
Trradero on the other, protected against pcEpocKe's
, by a Gordon Of police
Tho Noy Sun and shade Is n Centennial num-
| berr which Will appeal 10 those who de're con
yenient pictorial memento OF the recent celeoia uo"'
The publishers. the Photogravur1 Company OF New
York have reproduced portraits ot the pio"i'ho'.
partlcipants IN tho ceremonies and several SETS Vi
vtews NJ the Presidents Journey from EliZabeihport'
the Naval Parade and the Military and civic Parsdes
r,.I,Art, o, Nav l, the salon number, NJ Vcron
t,r,,.bes a careful survey OF this salon Of 2.7Il
paipnrs the uniformity Of which Is the least taai'
II contains only 1000 pictures too many 10 say inc
least NJ Vcron comments upon the almost COM
plrtn absence OF all productive originality unIe''i"u
,, hv this the particular character Of all that
mas ter creates the style Of hts genius when heNSOS
exercises an influence upon contemporary arus''''
Tn, critic continues on every side We hear the cry
we must have something new And what 90 We
scel Some so.callcd rcvolutonlsts who astonsh Only
nv their mesulreioss weakness which does not preNe
|, a swarm 0! gulls from apTlaudirG pictures the moS
. empty. compositions tho most foolish, and above all
IN, most incorrectly executed. The spirit and TASTE
! | vblrh have ruled In tho French school VIII
}, Vatican and Boucher the lofty inspiration the poetry
which have mmoralzel II with Eugene DeacrolA an'
y Coro. to cite only four great painters, all this inc,
have held as rubbish they hsve proclaimed II an on
trick but all this they have succeeded In IepacN,S
y ! onlv BY no,hlngness without any guiding pahclplC
they have fallen into hopeless confusion and they nave
N bclleyed that they WORK miracles lheS
u have arrived at this condition only through Ino "'
n absence Of principles 1t Is hundred years elu''
d democracy has entered upon tho scene ~heher ''
/, have all possible affection Tor H. OF uo"s' W -
70 the question II Is an undenlahl' iSc' WI" 49,
3 Il impossible not TO reckon. The artists nave "'
u .omnr.hended It and It would be puoc to DO aston
y shed in the presence Of the almost complete ao''h
70 Of knowledge which distinguishes, alas the sreate
~ number Of them, ignorant as their immoral pre-
" ressors OF the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Wet
~ nroioundIy verSsd IN the diverse branches IN
Il, sentiment Of that which belongs TO anew era mas te
made too naturally the defect In the art OF our tio'
CT II will DO seen that Nj, ycron takes higher an
moro serious view OF the province Of art than most
II hs conrercs II is Interesting 20 compare his Opnio
Ill with those of the clever exponent OF art for art
sr ! sakep NJ Albert Wolff, who occupied two pages
rr Figaro with his first article upon tho SALON. IL