The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
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At the Goupil Gallery in London,
rrites Mr.. Konody. Miss Winifred
cooper. who had been living and work
ng in the government of Oral, some
100 miles south of Moscow, until May,
1918, is showing a large NUMBER OF
sketches of Peasants and Bolsheviks'
which seem to present rose colored
aspect of the reign Of terror. 1t Is true
there are among her portrait eketches
ONE types that one would not care to
meet late at night in lonely road. But
beyond that the pictures depict a
rather idyllic condition of picturesque
and patriarchal peasants life. The gay
national costume lends brightness to
these domestic and rural scenes. 1t Is
only on reading the artists "foreword"
that one begins family to realize the
terrible conditions Of life produced by
the Bolshevik tyranny.
An echo of the late Pierpont Nor
gans residence in London crops up In
one Of the London dailies, with valua-
tons of masterpieces by experts, and
comment Of extreme casualness by the
presiding justice. Such things run
along differently there than with us.
An action arising from a dispute be-
tween two experts who took part In the
valuation OF the art treasures of the
late Pierpont Morgan at his houses
at Grosvenor Square and Wall Hall,
Watford. came before Mr.. Justice Nc
Cardie in the Kings Bench Division
yesterday.
Thomas Cubitt, an art dealer of Full
ham road, S. w. sought to recover
from Thomas Rougham, trading as L.
Rudd. at Southampton, f155 as the
balance OF an account for assisting
him in the valuation referred to. Mr..
Rougham denied liability, and said that
he had paid Mr.. Cubitt $3.50 out of
$500 received for the valuation, which
was a fair proportion.
In 1895, said Herbert Smith, FOR Mr..
Cubitt, there was valuation for fire
insurance purposes of the property of
the late J. +. Morgan, whose collection
| included valuable art treasurers and
works Of art. The property at Grosve-
nor Square came out at 1857 900 and
that at Watford at $4,000, a total of
| t424,000. Mr.. Rougham received the
commission to do the work and Mr..
| Cubitt was asked TO assist.
Mr.. Cubitt. giving evidence. said that
! ut Grosvenor Square the pictures in
cluded two Of Frans Halls, which he
valued at 100000 each, and Mr..
Rougham put at $4,000. These were
rarer than Gainsboroughs. and most
of them were locked up in Dutch gall
| leries. There was a Troyon that he
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| New York recently for f31. 500
Mr.. Justice McCardie: That may
have arisen from the circumstance that
| there were two men in New York
whose wives each desired a particular
picture.
At Wall Hall, continued Mr.. Cubitt.
there was a picture that he attributed
| TO Nelasquez and valued at $3.50 A
! glorious picture BY Abbot OF Lord Mel
son was in the linen cupboard.
Mr.. Justice McCarde: remember
! seeing one of the finest Lorraines I
ever saw in my life in the pantry next
/ to the houselIeepers room in a certain
/ country house.
Expert evidence was called. and the
hearing was adjourned indefinitely
to come from Bournemouth, where he
| was staying. owing to the strikes.
Pictures painted on the battlefield
by Lady Helena Gleichen, King
Georges cousin, attracted much at.
tention at the private view of the
siXty-fourth exhibition of the Society
OF Women Artists in London.
Lady Helena spent many months
| with her mobile X-ray hospital on the
Italian front and the five large battle
studies she has sent 10 the exhibition
are remarkably virile pieces OF work
Two of the series. The Vigil on the
Isonzo," in full view of the Austrian
lines, and "Readjusting Mule Packs,
are rough but powerful sketches. exc
cuted on large sheets of ordinary
brown paper and appropriately frame,
in coarse khaki hessian.
THE italian Artillery Camp on tn,
Austrian Frontier, 1917" (No. 4l5). i
| a finished study in oils Of battle horse
against a background of purple noun
tains, and her picture of the Italian
troops awaiting night TO so int
trenches (492) came in for genera
praise.
With the almost solitary exception
of Lady Helena, the women artist
have avoided war subjects. Children
flowers, Old World gardens, countr
lanes, picturesque cottages, river an
shore are the subjects which have ap
pealed 10 the exhibitors. The DuChes
of Rutland is represented by three o
her exquisite pencil portraits-N
. Paderewskl, Mrs. c. Ansell and he
now famous portrait of DR.. Nansen.
+ The progress of modern art 4
London is instanced by the respec
that Is paid there to the work O
h ! Nevinson, Paul Nash and Wyndhar
S Lewis 1t is doubtful II many official
= in New York's art circles would be a
c kind 10 the latter as is the Londo1
f critic who wrote:
"Licnt. Wyndham Lewis is out 70
Q essential truth. He is as far remove
c from illustration as from decoration
t. He gives grim experience of traSi
a facts in appropriate terms, with com
n plete repression of irrelevant II ma
!. take some time before he comes int
@ his own Even in his compromisin
:, mood he is too far removed from III
c dead tradition of the nineteenth cen
t turv to gain the immediate applaus