New-York tribune., 1913-06-19
Painting Alleged to Have Been
Stolen Withdrawn at Marc
7eIl de NemeS Dispersal.
rO8 10 CANvASES s19S,2O0
u;rbest Price of Day, $4,000,
Il Given for Sixteenth Cen
tury Holy Family" "
by Greco.
IBy cable to The Tribunel

paris Junc lN.-The second day OF
49,. uarczcU de Nemcs sale at the
,,.rz Joyant Gallery was devoted
-.o;rlv 10 modern paintings. d total of
Sn5Ho being realized. This sum-
,adsd TO that realized by the dispersal
...s,erdav of the old masters of .hc col
,..,ion and including the 10 per cent
,,r,ission for the expenses Of the
..is makes a grand total of Sl,lT4. 800
mild sensation was caused soon
.,ter the opening Of to-day's session 10y
,bs announcement that canvas bN f.
ga y LucicntCS. entitled "Dwarfs
paying. though figuring in the cata-
,ogue would not be offered for sale
ling 10 the fact that the Spanish
government. alleging that the painting
sod been stolen from the Prado Mu-
s.um in Madrid. in 1869. disputed its
,vnership. II was painted in lINS
nth view 10 being used as model
Cor some tapestry Ia he placed over the
soor of a room in the Escurial Palace.
Tho nicture is not Of striking beauty,
&c subject being undoubtedly better
cited for representation in tapestry
than IN oils. II was exhibited at Mu-
,ich IN 1911 and in Dusseldorf in 1872.
Once Hung in Church.
The highest price realized to-day was
s4eOO for a Holy Family" by Greco
Cnomenico TheotokopulD, painted in
,bs last decade Of the sixteenth CEN
,nyv For many years it hung in
village church a few miles from Toledo.
The second highest price Of the day
$4,000. was also realized by a Greco.
an immaculate Conception" painted
in 1913 or 1914.
Corot's "songerie de Mariette," All
example Of the painters latest period,
seen at the Paris Exposition, 1900
fetched S25, 400.
For A third Greco, an "Annunciation
Of the Virgin" painted in the first dec
sde Of the seventeenth century. $4,000
was given. Another Greco. a Holy
Family" painted in all probability
simultaneously with the same artists
Holy Family" now in the possession
Of the Spanish-American Society Of
New York. realized $4,000.
P 4. Rcnoir's "Famille Henrior.'
painted about 1876 showing three fig
ures seated at the foot Of a tree. TWO
women and a man dressed in the COS
tune Of that day, fetched $1,000.
A study Of Paris street by Edouard
Nanet LA Rue de Berne), being a
view from the artists window. with
the houses decorated with flags, dated
lS7S. realized $4,000.
Companion Picture in Berlin.
a Carnival Scene" by Goya, paint
Cd in 1915 as a companion picture 20
the MAY Tree" now in the National
Gallery, Berlin, a picture admirable in
its suggestion Of movement and light
heartedness, went for $1,000.
Paul Cezanne's Youth with a Ped
Waistcoat." painted in 1885, fetched
$1,000.
A landscape by Gustave Courbet,
"Environs Of Ornans," showing an eX-
Quisite waterfall effect. realized S1o,-
90
The aggregate amount given for the
ten pictures in the above list is thus
sl9S200 None Of the other paintings
realized as much as $4,000 a feature
Of the sale was the enhanced values of
Edgar Degas's paintings, as well rs
those Of Edouard Manet, p. A. Renoir
snd Vincent Van Gogh
Mary Cassatts remarkable study
In an Opera Box" achieved the price
Of s2,10O; Edouard Degas's Ballet
Dancers" was sold for $j,7O0. and a
Sill life study by Van Gogh fetched
$500.