The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-28
$4,000 PAID FOR 4 'MAUYE.
RECORD PRICE FOR 4 WORK or
TINS ARTIST AT WAGG4NAN SALE.
Ninety-six Paintings and water Colors Sell
for SOFA, 22S-t Fortune In the Water
C0lors Alone-A sIIliet Drawing for
sI3.sOO-A Wynnt OIL brings 50, 100.

Anton Mauve's superb painting entitled
Sheep Coming Out OF the Forest" for
which he received his medal in the Salon
OF 1887, was sold by Thomas Z. Kirby OF
the American Art Association at the auction
OF the Thomas +. Waggaman collection In
Mendelssohn Hall last evening for $40, 200.
This figure is n record price for q canvas
10y Mauve at public sale, either in the United
States or Europe
II was said last evening that the nearest
selling price heretofore was in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. Herman Sohaus bought
tho Sheep Coming Out OF the Forest.
presumably on order He left the hall
without announcing where the painting
was TO go. y. L. Montross. another dealer,
was the under bidder. Various other
bidders dropped out several thousand
dollars below the knock down price.
When tho painting was first put up the
bids started, $1,000, $4,000. and up by big
jumps 70 rapidly that s25 900 was called
almost before anybody could say that the
bidding had started at all. When the
final offer of $40, 200 was made and the
auotioneer's gavel fell hard the people felt
so good that they had to applaud
The painting Is described in the oata-
logue as follows
Except for a patch OF white and pale
blue sky In the left ton corner. the back
OF the picture Is filed in with pine trees
between the trunks of which appear vertical
Sits Of light The sheep are streaming out
from under the trees on TO the pale sandy
colored grass, the light falling on their
backs while their sides are in shadow. In
the midst of them moves the dark coated
shepherd. holding his crook horizontally
across his body. while his dog watches in
front,
The hall was crowded early and the
rear room had to be opened to accommodate
the overflow attendance The bidding
throughout the evening was steady al
though rarely enthusiastic. Water colors
and oil canvases shared alike the support
and admiration OF the competitors. The
ninety-siK paintings aAd drawings OF the
collection brought S223,225. The drawings
alone, Of which there were forty-three,
fetched s5l,o6D.
Even aside from the sale OF the great
Mauye, the auction mi ght be described as
the Day Of the Dutchrnan. Mr.. Wagga-
mans collection was superior in examples
OF the Dutch painters, and the admirers OF
the school came out or sent commissioners
to buy while the opportunity was here,
and they came with liberal purses.
ENllOhB lit vdNOO
AT Dordrecht' sold for Slips: Alauve's
Winter In Holland" for $3.50 and his
Boy and Cow for s2,ioo; Neuhuys's In
Dutch House" for 81 zoo; Bosbooms's
In the Church" for Hips. Israels draw
ing. Jan in the Baby Chair. brought So, 600
Senator ". A. Clark pal d IS 500 for de Neu-
ville's Flag Of Truce. Another Mauve
drawing, In the Sheep Stable, Laren.'
went at $1,000. and j. r. Millet's pastel,
THE Close Of Day, was sent flying up to
si3,soo r. Isman was the name Of the
buyer given.
Of the higher priced among the oil paint
ings, the Israels, -Grandfather's Consola-
ton" went to William Macbeth for SIS 500;
Jacob Maris's odd Canal at Dordreoht'
sold at 2l2 800; Constable's Hampstead
was bought by Sir William Van Horne for
s9,O5o Corot's Lake Nemi" went to j
Wertheim for s. 200; jacques -Homeward
Bound-Moonlght,' to Emerson McMillen
for $1,000
For the pa intings given to Memlinc,
Van Dyok and Reynolds in the catalogue
the bidders seemed not 20 care and they
went at small figures.
Following ia a detailed record OF the sale,
with buyers names as announced