The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-13
RECORD PRICES AT
SALE OF IVES ART
Prints Are Bid For Eagerly by
Buyers Of Entire
Country.
S1,625 FOR "MISS FARREN''

As art enthusiasm is contagious. the
scenes attending yesterdays sales Of the
engravings in the late Gen. Btayton
Ives collection will have an immediate
effect in booming the interest in prints.
The rooms at the American Art Asso-
citation In which the sales are proceed
/ ing were crowded. The sales were fol.
lowed with close attention. The prices
were good and In number Of caees
records were broken. and all this. It
must be remembered, occurs in war
times.
The fact IL, the knowledge Of the ex-
/ ceptional character of Gen. Ives's prints
liz broadcast, and the attention of ex-
perts all over the world has been at
tracted to this sale. Every dealer OF
prominence in this country had repre-
sentatives in attendance. and there was
one agent buying for European clients
The museums also were represented
The purchases by Fitzroy Darlington
! IL is said. were for the Boston Museum
One OF the most prominent OF the pri-
1 vate collectors was +. A. Widener OF
/ Philadelphia.
The Bartolozzi mezzotint Of Miss Far
rem" after the portrait by Sir Thomas
4 Lawrence in the j. Pierpont Morgan coll
lection now on loan in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. sold for 1888. breaking
all sale records for this print II was
No. rs in the catalogue,
Other prints that broke records at the
afternoon session were the Bartoloxzi
print, No. SIS. OF the Countess Spencer,
after Sir Joshua REYNOLDS portrait.
/ Caryinpfop for ySSO.
and the st. John the Baptist" by
Giulio Campagnola. No. III. selling to
Paul \. Sachs for sl.525.
Fitzroy CARING ms other purchases
were: No A. an engraving. Mars,
by Bacio Baldini. from the Gelatly col
| lection, $40: No. 40. Baldinis Luna,
$3.50; No. l76, Christ and the Samari-
tan Woman by Campagnola. $3.50. and
| No 1870, Lady Hamilton as The Spin
ster'' by Thomas Cheesman after Rom
ney. for $3.50.
The Twelve Months" by Bartolozzi.
No. 20. went to James F. Drake. Inc,
for Sl,lO0: Arthur Hahlo Co. paid
$50 for No. so. Mars, Venus and
Cupid" by Jacopo de Barbari: $40 for
No l6s. d. Y. Cameron's "Abbazis' and
SITS for No. IS, z. Andreas -Four
Women Dancing"
d. Allen gave S440 for No. 81. Barto-
lozzi's Venus Attired by the Graces."
and $3.50 for No. ISL, THE Holy Family
| With So. John" by Ia Brescia. NJ
Knoeiler x Co. paid s420 for NJ. ia
Campo gnola's Musical shepherd and
+. d. Whitehouse bought No. 20s. Sam
uei Cousins Master I.ambton' for $500.
Large Attendance.
At the evening sale the attendance
was still larger than in the afternoon.
1t was not only the largest but the
most enthusiastic audience ever as
sembled at a print sale. The best prices
of the day resulted when the Valentine
Green mezzotints and the Durer etch-
ings were reached.
For No 399 superb proof OF the
mezzotint by var Green Of Georglana
| Duchess OF Devonshire after Sir Joshua
Reynolds portrait, James +. Drake.
Inc paid $500. the top price Of the
evening. This will be considered a sen
sational price by those who have not
! been following recent events, but Will
not surprise those who have noticed the
increased and increasing estimation in
which the brilliant mczzotints OF Nalen-
tine Green are held.
Mr.. Drake also gave So.0i0 for No.
800. n fine impression of Albert purer $
wonderful plate "Melancholia," by some
writer's considered his master work and
s 900 for No 29l. silvery impression
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