DOI Heft:
No. 340 (July 1921)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Captain J. Audley Harvey's collection, [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0019
THE STUDIO
CAPTAIN J. AUDLEY HARVEY'S and whose only desire is to make a sub-
COLLECTION. (First Article.) 0 stantial profit out of their dealings. There
are the men who specialise in certain types
IT would be interesting to analyse the of art production and who ignore every-
motives by which men are impelled to thing which is outside the narrow limits of
become collectors of works of art, interest- selection they have chosen to lay down,
ing because such an analysis would prove There are the well-meaning enthusiasts
that though the foundation of these motives who boast that they know what they like
is always the craving to acquire they are and who think that an untrained taste is a
themselves as varied as the temperaments sufficient guide in their erratic incursions
of the men whom they influence. There into the art market. 000a
are collectors who merely believe that the But there are also collectors who without
possession of wealth obliges them to pose lapsing into specialism cultivate an under-
as patrons of art; they buy what is repre- standing of the best things that are avail-
sented to them as the right thing for them able, things of widely differing character
to have, and they are more often than not and of varied artistic intention, things
the prey of the unscrupulous dealer with a which represent the highest achievement of
persuasive tongue and a shrewd under- many schools and illustrate the divergent
standing of human weakness. There are aims of independent masters. Collectors of
the speculators who gamble in art objects this order buy what they like, but their
LXXXII. No. 340.—July 1921
' the goatherd." by
j. m. swan, r.a.
CAPTAIN J. AUDLEY HARVEY'S and whose only desire is to make a sub-
COLLECTION. (First Article.) 0 stantial profit out of their dealings. There
are the men who specialise in certain types
IT would be interesting to analyse the of art production and who ignore every-
motives by which men are impelled to thing which is outside the narrow limits of
become collectors of works of art, interest- selection they have chosen to lay down,
ing because such an analysis would prove There are the well-meaning enthusiasts
that though the foundation of these motives who boast that they know what they like
is always the craving to acquire they are and who think that an untrained taste is a
themselves as varied as the temperaments sufficient guide in their erratic incursions
of the men whom they influence. There into the art market. 000a
are collectors who merely believe that the But there are also collectors who without
possession of wealth obliges them to pose lapsing into specialism cultivate an under-
as patrons of art; they buy what is repre- standing of the best things that are avail-
sented to them as the right thing for them able, things of widely differing character
to have, and they are more often than not and of varied artistic intention, things
the prey of the unscrupulous dealer with a which represent the highest achievement of
persuasive tongue and a shrewd under- many schools and illustrate the divergent
standing of human weakness. There are aims of independent masters. Collectors of
the speculators who gamble in art objects this order buy what they like, but their
LXXXII. No. 340.—July 1921
' the goatherd." by
j. m. swan, r.a.