New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-13
BARGAINS AT YERKES SALE
One Marble Figure That Cost
FinanCier S32, 500, Sold
for $1,000.
RYAN BUYS FOR MUSEUM

Two Robins Will Go to Metro
politan-Total of Sale
Now S2,189,639.
Some bargains were secured by bidders
at the sale of sculpture. artistic furnishings
and art volumes yesterday afternoon ana
evening at the Yerkes house. Fifth avenue
and eSth street. The afternoon sale Melted
$lls,l3s and the evening sale s5.lls. bringing
the grand total so far realized from the
Yerkes sale to s2.ls9,639 80.
The highest price of the day was $4,000.
paid by Duveen Brothers for figure Of
Diana. by Houdon. 1t was started with a
bid of 5000. The height of the figure. with
pedestal, is nine feet six inches.
particularly noteworthy feature Of the
afternoon sale was the gift of Thomas F.
Ryan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
When Thomas E. Kirby. who conducted
the sale. offered the Carrara marble group,
Cupid and Psyche by Auguste Rodin. he
announced that it was the first important
Rodin ever brought to this country. 1t was
started with a bid OF $1,000, and knocked
down to Mr.. Ryan at $500. Another group.
''Orpheus and Eurydice." by Rodin, was
started with bid of $1,000 and bought by
Mr.. Ryan for 1900. 1t was stated officially
last night that Mr.. Ryan had decided 10
present to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
these representative examples of Robins
art.
a peculiar circumstance is connected with
the bronze statue "Bacchante," by Mac
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two feet six and a half inches in height.
1t was made in 1898 for the Boston Library.
but was rejected by the governors of that
institution and bought by Mr.. Yerkes. Yes
terday it was purchased for $4,000 by w. w.
Seaman, acting for Boston man. VINO.
while he will not allow his name to be
made public. has announced his intention
of placing the statue on exhibition in the
Boston Museum
Some of the Bargains.
Three charitable bargains were secured
yesterday afternoon. A Carrara marble
statue. "A Bacchante." by Maurice Etienne
Falconet cost Mr.. Yerkes $50 so some years
ago. 1t was knocked down yesterday to
Samuel Untermyer 70 5000
Mr.. Yerkes in 1895 paid $1,000 for the in
terror decorations of a japanese room.
They were executed in Japan from special
designs for Mr.. Yerkes. including en-
broderes. paintings and other fixtures. The
woodwork, including ceiling, can easily 10
taken apart. since all was erected without
nails or glue. being dOvetaiIed in the
japanese fashion The entire ceiling rests
upon and is supported by the side pillars
fom the floor. These SIC 900 decorations
ura To an b1ry
for 800.
Then there was the gorgeous Louis "
bedstead. made by Zwiener. of Pals for
Mr.. Yerkes. at a cost of $1,000 1t was
executed in palisandre and marquetterie.
with superlative bronze mounting, and cast
from specially prepared models, of which
some were used on only one occasion be-
fore (for Ludwig II, the late King of Ba-
varia, and destined for the royal Hohen-
schwangau Palace. 1t is complete with
palissandre and ornolu dome piece form
ing a canopy and matching the bedstead
and green silk damask side curtains. with
passementerie trimmings. All these we're
knocked down to Captain De La Mar for
81 400
Mrs. II. p. Whitney Buyer.
Mrs Harry Payne Whitney paid $3.50
for tall gilt Louis XIV standard. richly
carved in the wood and Gilt, with all the
sumptuous detail of that epoch
Three electric bronze transom fixtures,
with five lamps EACH were bought for S.
80 by P. w. Rouss, who also paid $500
for sixteen massive carved chairs in dark
finish and OF elaborate Renaissance design.
After eager bidding two ormolu candelbras
(Girandeles) Of Louis NV design. with cut
crystal, amethyst and topaz drops were
sold to ". R. Coe for $500. Mr.. Coe also
paid $500 for two tall gilt Louis XIV
standards.
Robert +. Downing paid $3.50 for 4
grand Erard piano. having a case with
Vernis- Martin painting and remarkable
bronze ormolu mountings, and $775 for d
large French gilt centre table of the Louis
XIV style.
James Graham was the purchaser, at So
800. of four pairs of window sashes. fitted
with varied seventeenth century Illuminated
and heraldic glass. Mrs. Lillian Nordica
Young paid sl.25O for a bronze ceiling
light. For $1,000 Mrs T. u Owsley OBJ
tanned a pair of large Italian bronze
torcheres of Roman design. and for $3.50
TWO red African marble vases. Louis XIV
style. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt paid $500
for two rare Algerian panache marble
vases with tall pink column pedestals.
The most striking purchase at the even
ing sale. which was attended largely by
dealers, was that Of Edmond Bonaffe's LIE
Musee Splitter" half morocco SvO volume.
with portrait and illustrations. When 30
cents was bid Mr.. Kirby threatened TO
couple II with another lot. but got it start
ed at 81. 1t was knocked down for $50 to
". w. Seaman, as agent
Low Prices for Paintings.
'Lumieres'' a rainting by Henri Eugene
le Sidaner. went to Underwood for $3.50.
This picture cost Mr.. Yerkes goo sterling.
Dr. Gottshall paid $40 for an Italian land
scape by Jan Both. and Church of the
Jesuits. Venice" by Arthur Meadows, went
for $3.50. "Cupid's Offering" a diminutive
work of Jan Van Beers, brought SlO5; a
watercolOr by EdOuard Detaille went for
$780, and a Head of "A Woman" attributed
to Peter Pourbus. for Sl05. These pictures
were not included in the catalogue Of the
pictures sold a [ Mendelssohn Han as they
had been in Mr.. YeTkes's home i'm London.
Eight volumes of the complete work of