The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-16
CLARKE PICTURE SALE.
ADDED PROOF OF ESTEEM FOR
AMERICAN PAINTINGS.

Is. Clhrkc'S collection were sold last evening at
Chickering Hall. The attendance was larger
than on Tuesday evening and the buying was
discriminating Tho absence OF doalers as any
large factor in the buying is not in the
least dIscouraging to the managers OF the sale
or to Mr.. Clarke, who rather welcomes the
somewhat diversified appreciation shown OF
his judgment as a collector Of American artists
work.
Although the total Of last evenings sales
was somewhat less than that OF tho first nights.
while tho number OF pictures offered was tho
same. the sale was regarded as even a better
one than Tuesdays. taken MS a whole.
inasmuch rs the number Of small and UNI
important paintings in the nights catalogue
was greater than in Tuesdays. These smaller
examples brought higher prices proportionately
than those Of Tuesday, and the total num-
her tho selling price OF which was less
than Mr.. Clarke had paid for them was only
one-puarter Of the whole lot. as against one
third OF those sold on the evening before. Sew
cral OF the Illnesses, however. went at prices
which could not he called high. and there was
q general confidence expressed that a very few
years would see an advance in the commercial
value Of all of them.
The high figure for tho night was fetched by
an lnness. and beat Tuesday evenings high
price. which was commanded by Homer Mar
tin. by 500. 1t was $500, paid by George
A. Hcarn for the exquisite Wood Gather
ers." Tn spectators a%pplauded when
the bidding got to $1,000. but the bid
ier. the evening was s56.555, which. with the
S54,Q40ot the first nights sale. makes S104, sos
for the paintings SO far sold. or hall. in number.
oil The whole collection.
The sale OF MIR. Clarke's objects OF art was
begun yesterday afternoon. and the S12,58S.5
entire sale 70 date Sill, 1880. The afternoon
which will be referred to below. The whole
country has been down on Spain and things
one spectator at its close, but certainly those
Moorish potters who in the sixteenth century
took their art into Spain were vindicated to-
The remark was ELECTED by the fact that
little more than half a hundred Of the Hispano-
$500 or $500 TO Sl.2OO. The afternoon sales.
like those of the evenings. are likely to grow
the Chinese porcelains are among the rieces to
The two paintings that most worked up
the. bidders last evening. aside from the
Wood Gathcrers." were, Winslow Homer's
s s{t2I > spIsnd hdIe m i1GSs 22SMh nin the co SAME
The pa!ratting? sod at within 500 of each
Iier in the catalogue. with is lne surf
bursting in the air high above the rocks. and
the h6,,f fo2mi i1Go waters dSm nnt linz ietweent the ;
open ocean rolling beyond. The, spectators
aBplau4Gd when the bidding. which had start
h r]ainti nt'! went {? i. 4. Bel at s4l.4I9i66..
catalogue. A thousand dollars was the open
inS, bid for it. i is the picture formerly IN the
C t. erin l9riiiard WGlfe - c00nlI6GGtton.. i i
not take long for the bids last evening to get
above that figure, and it looked for q time as
painting here for its delectation hereafter, The
Metronolitan Museum OF Art, permitted the
so. Thomas +; Kirby, The .aQctioneer. when
the bid reached Sf.5OO, cried II for a long
ti@Se az @n ,hb hr fra his f Ths ad R2,ssd: 6 TSi5pe 81 Bst to
by 500 or more. Finally he said: IN take
$50 from you" But the New Workers were
took the PAINTING.
The ten Illnesses sold last evening, are to be
got "a sunny Autumn Day" for. $4.INO;
I 3NS$NiI IAN r2ad,44 $l d4 for i2c,v THE rn@n M vi
10" ssl. t355.'' For Sr't thHSS Enc 81 fT the Ratn n''' 500
and 5000 offers were sGG9rned. and III" first bid
f%qk B, tine ,w ~BESsky. .T Pea, ! 2 %,ts 500 @arr EGH5
sold last night Tor 5000. got, the
G. GAWJ5o f. T@rtfs G G%t :I Ti2mRr55G tor ) S7ii6 IL" T f2r fIi;G23;
The people in the hall expressed their graft
ncation At the ANNOUNCEMENT that Charles II.
Melville Dnwey's Edg" of the Forest were to
goto the Corc9ran gallery. at Washington,
The sale Of the first catalogue division Of Mr..
Clarke's art objects, both those Of large value
and thos" .. interest mainly curious. or having
the interest OF odditics at the American Art Gal
lcries in the afternoon. showed some surprises.
That this sale. no less than the sale of the
paintings collected by him. had attracted good
deal of attention was evidenced by the consid-
cradle number Of people drawn to the largest
OF the galleries in Madison square. where the
orders sent in both 10y telegraph md telephone
even after the, sal" had begun. II was evident
persons who desired an opportunity 10
bid on some OF Mr., Clarke's,. sc!ec-
tons; TIL. sale also G A. indications
raid i t9r item y hir. GTloTTES. wIiIs on - articles
as to cause some remark. The classes show
ing the most noticeable diyersities were the
sian objects. The former presented some re-
markable advances on previous prices, and the
i ciof h6 al eu however, Went Dg e Eca1 S9 nrSef SoRRW u no
means meagre on purchases OF the Persian
goods.
mon n'I pariance. called fbSrriHc-&a-SSrTaac Within u Il The
last few years with which the best Of Mr.,
he compared. except that of the collection made
By, cha oriSs,i 4 A Dana sin@d A. Hit ltoGIff tb in Its we entirstyy
Some Of Sir. GG'iarRes And Mr., Danas collec-
ton is represented in the Clarke sale by some
Rtry yeatcrd m@sT s T@'@ Of u & %a' 81 Bp' on up t e aq CiarEc
catalogue. a large II lspano-Mauresque plaque
Of brilliant copper lustrc. which MIR Clarke
bought for little more than $500 at the Dana
sale. sold for $3.50.
Another plaque NJ tins class which is de-
Clarcd to be among the most perfect plaques in
this country. although no stress WAS laid upon
its merits or excellence yesterday, No. 50 ofthe
catalogue. sold at $1,000. which figure il
reached from a start 2f$365; II was bought BY
r.. Hearst. Another private, buyer, who
shrank behind a pseudonym, paid 500 for one
Of these plaques IN copper and blue. with bril-
limit luStrr. No, u of tn" catalogue; The
exquisite specimens. of this particular decora-
tiOn, which Were fairly numerous in The Offer
ings OF til" afternoon, w"r" very attractive Ia
the buyers and brought from 5000 TO above
$500 each. The nnnes Of dealers were fIc-
quent among the buyers. among, whom were
numbered Henry. Sampson. L. q. Kclekran.
stanley and Nardus. and George 4. Hcarn,
Wood, Mrs, Williams, COX, Mrs, Sherwood.
Mr.. Einstein. Benjamin, kn9wer. John Crosby
Brown. who purchased n ShiraY drum, it was
understood, for the, Metropolitan Museum;
Among ONE OF the minor interesting pur-
chases in the Persian and Indian catalogue
was n fourteenth century mosaic faicnco
tile; IN turquoiS". Yellow. green. brown
up by II watch'ul dealer at S23. and