DOI issue:
Nr. 36 (6. September)
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DIE WELTKUNST
5
^fthrg. V, Nr. 36 vom 6. September 1931_
English Supplement
fancards at £ 354 and £ 328, an oval Char-
les II. box af £ 340, a pair of Augsburg win-e
jugs at £ 321.
On July 30fh Christie had an auction sale
of stained glass Windows, which contained
interesting German and English examples
which -attained £ 399 and £ 304. Besides,
this sale contained oriental carpets and
French tapisfries, the prices of which were
not to good.
End of the London Season
Summary resulfs of the last auction sales
Munich’s Reconstruction as Art Centre
While in Germany and in Paris auctions had
Jkadually cease-d towards the summer season,
J'e London season remained lively and auc-
’°ns went on un-til the end of July. We give
short outline of some important auction re-
S|Jlt-s, lists of which are being joined into se-
veral of our issues.
. The auction sale of the collection Hirsch
’9s been related fo some time ago. On July
Ofh Christie had a v-ery important auction of
^intings from the collection« of the Marquess
mrzon of Kedl-esfon-e, of Lord Hastings and
I. F. Austin. Italian piefures were success-
P'lly sold: Botticelli (aftributed to B.) "Birth of
t-lirist“ with 850 Guineas; Filippo Lippi, "Ma-
donna“ with 580 Guineas; Ambrogio de Pre-
% "Porirait of a youth" with 550 Guineas.
Of the Curzon pictures, mostly decorative
only a few contributed to the total of
14 117; among those English paintings of the
f!- Century Hoppn-er’s “Portrait of Miss- L-ar-
j’ent" was sold with 420 Guineas, Lely’s "Por-
rQit of Mrs. Stone“ with 150 Guineas, Rom-
1!l‘Y’s "Mrs. Yates” with 490 Guineas; besides
tiere were some Englisch painters of the
’tt- Century: Burne Jones “The Hours“ brought
i^O Guineas, Hom-an Hunt’s "Toscan Girl“
A) Guineas.
The auction sale of the 1-i-brary and picture
^Uection from Ruskins property at Sotheby’s
Morland were sold at £ 680, two landscapes
by the same at £ 450, two prints by Janinet
after Fragona-rd (L’-amour, la foli-e) at £ 330.
The sale of the illuminated Livius manu-
script, the so-called “Live of the Bäfard de
Bourgogne“, a beautifully conserved and
richly deco-r-afe-d French manuscript of the
15ih Century at Sothby’s on June 23rd was
somehow sensational; after hard competition
Gilhofer & Rans-chburg, Vienna, could acquire
it for £ 4400. Another Sotheby success was
the sale of Chauc-er’s Complefe Works (an
early edition, London) for £ 1532, the sale of
an English manuscript of the 15th Century,
extiemely interesting from the poin-t of view
of cosfume and customs, for £ 1600 and the
sale of another French 15th Century manu-
script, the famous “Roman de la Rose“ at
the price of £ 390.
Sculpfures were rare on the market. The
auction sale of the collection Schuster was
however significant for the valuation of Ita-
lian bron-zes in London. The total res-ulf for
24 lots was £ 1265. A bronce figure, lying
'.vornan, from the circle of Giambologna rea-
ched £ 200, a portrait bust of a man by
Leone Leoni £ 100, two stafuettes of horses
from the 16th Century £ 95.
Christie’s auefion-s sale on Jun-e lOth and
llth of the collection Hirsch was guite impor-
tant as to furniture and
su-ccess-
ART of the WORLD * Le MONDE des ARTS
a sensi-
fayences
ehest
was paid with
10 s, a Chip-
secretary with
a Louis XV
can
ex-
on
The
Art Gallery for £
by Mailet for £ 680, a Queen Anne s-ecretary
by A. J. Cohen for £ 210, an interesting Char-
les I. fapestry for £ 235. The total result
amounted t-o £ 5323.
Sotheby’s auction on June 16t-h, 17th and
on J-une 25th were particul-iarly informat-ory as
to the general interest in cera-mics. The first
sale brought Persian ceramics only and was
somehow disappointing considering the excel-
I-ent guality of the objects. A blue jug, 14fh
Century, on vi-ew at the London Exhibition,
attained £ 780 as the highest price reached.
Tihre-e early carpets how-eve-r, a S-assanid g-old
dish, some bronze fittings sold quite
fully.
The auction on Juni 25th attained
fional price for offen reproduced
Saint-Porchaire: £ 3200 and £2000; besides
£560.
some
Sotheby’s sale on May
8 th, which contained
very varied material: a
Madonna byRobbia was
bought by the Span-ish
780, a Sheraton secreta-ry
a h-isp-an-o moresqu-e bowl of the 15th Century
{£ 880) a Caffagiola bowl of the 16fh Century
(£ 350), a Damascene win-e jug (£ 210)
be con-sjdered as well paid. Beautiful
■amples of silber were sold- by auction
April 23rd and Jiune 23rd at Sotheby’s,
attained prices were s-lightly lower than the
average of last year: a Queen Anne bowl
sold af £ 444, two Charles II. and James II.
objects of art; a pair
of Sheraton
drawers
£ 1627
pend-ale
£ 2415,
writing tabl-e with £ 1365.
China porcela-in-es met
with considerable in-
terest: Pariridge acqui-
red two early Kang-
Hsi figures for £ 1522,
Pariridge and Watson
bought a set five Ming
vas-es for £ 1007 10 s.
On Sotheby’s auc-
tions of furniture on
July 171h a Louis XV
ehest drawer by Roger
Van-dercruse Delacroix
(reproduced- in our
Au-gust 161h issue) and
a Brussels tapestry
werte well sold at
£ 1300 -and £ 145; the
resf was disappointing.
The sale on June 12th
however was excellent,
coniain-in-g very good
objects which duly
reached absolutely sa-
tisfying prices: a pair
of rnarble stafuettes
from the circle of Fal-
conei, sold for £ 600,
a Louis XV secrefary
for £ 560, a Brussels
gobel-in a-bouf 1700 for
We m-ay add
notes about
Mario Tozzi, Mirage
Ausstellung — Exposition — Exhibition:
Paris, Galerie Bonjean
The whole art world reads the
«WELTKUNST»
J May 20th came out a great deception, pro-
l/'U the vanishing interest for r-eliquary mat-
-|S|- A few pictures exceeded £ 100, among
l^'ch a portrait of a man by Tintoretto, s-old
tj|r £ 400, a Madonna aftributed to Botticelli
i,^o-vered by Fairfax Murray in Florence,
-’1 £ 400 or a water colour by Turn-er for
' '85.
LSotheby's -auctions on May 13th and- June
i* containing English sporting pictures and
y'naits proved perfectly satisfying: three
-' Chases by Wolstenholme were paid with
.?-00O, a hunt-ing picture by Ferneley with
/()0; a portrait of -a -gen-fleman by Reynolds
i' ched- £ 280, a ri-ver lands-cape by van Goyen
5&0, a sikef-ch in chalk by Watte-au £ 1550,
V^nefian Vedute by Can-al-etto £ 820. The
’r,, , of the auctions of paintings effected a
7e-st Sale.
-I|i n- Sotheby’s auction on June lOth among
n£rs -a p-encil drawin.g by Ingres was aqui-
k for £ 165, a drawing by T-iepolo for £58;
LMy 15fh only the paintings from the col-
'°n Schuster, Amtserdam, found buyers.
■^J-hriisifi-e’s auction on Jiuly 17fh containing
y different properii-es among others some
ik efian views by Guardi, two riversid-e sce-
ifj t>y Avercamp, a portrait aftributed to
-|J'S Hals, effected -a total result of £ 4732.
i\| °Wards the end of July the interest d-imi-
obviously, and Sotheby’s auctions- of
andson’s water colours and modern
, |,lngs we-re no cons-iderable success.
it, ,.0Wever, the auction sale of French and
'S|h prin-fs on July 7fh found many a-ma-
s-eries of fou-r prints Fox Hunfing by
The cafasfrophy caused by the fire in the
Munich Glasp-al-ast has made the critical Si-
tuation obvious, where art Stands at the pre-
sent moment. Pessimis-m, if possib-le, increa-
se-d fo gene-r-al despair, buf the facts have got
dou-bfful fhough whether Munich can prove
such a reserve of disposable forces.
In-formed by competenf persons we learn
that fher-e is an in-fense latent possibility of
reorganisiing Munich as an international tra-
Maurice Utrillo, Montmartre: Le Lapin Agile
Austeilung — Exposition — Exhibition:
Paris, Galerie de France
to be considered objectively, in Order to find
a rem-edy to -a passive hopelessness. Art
life in Munich has un-doubted-ly s-uff-ered gr-e-
atly., but fhere is by no means a regulär diec-
lin-e in the dom-ain of art. The quality of
Munich artists can’t possibly have diminished
suddenly. The -average ni-veau has not b-e-
come lower at the last exhibition than it had
been in the preceding on-es, except perhaps
comparie-d to Munich’s brillianf firnes b-etween
1869 and 1908.
For art tr-ade Munich is quite as impor-
tant -as Paris, London- or Amsterdam, but it
is here confined to old
masfers. Of course
many of the great
buyers are missing
now, which makes
things difficult for art
dealers of middle and
small means.
Neverfheless there
is certainly a cr-isis for
the reason that this art,
solide Munich is dea-
ling with, no longer falls
in line with modern
mentality and no lon¬
ger is required; and
Munich is bound to ad-
just ifseif to the general
demand in arf matfers
of to-day, so that
economical factors are
creaf-ed which will
furfher M-un-ich as a
tow of art. Government
and_ municipal -authori-
ties have don-e their
best, but there remains
one important thing to
be done, that is: fo
make Munich th-e world
known fravellin-g cenfre
for the refin-ed cul-
tivated intercontinental
buying public. On this
con-dition only on-e
could pari with the
German higher mid-dle-
class public who as a
matter of fact hardly
count as buyers now.
Only in case Munich
regains international
luter est and the bene¬
fit of international
means -it can be saved.
First of -all, of course, Munich is bound to
prove that it can reconquer the competenf
international public by similar organisations
as the Wagner and Mozart Festivals, the Mu-
nich Exhibition in 1908, the Mohammed-an Art
Exhibition-, the International Musical Festival
1910, all of which m-ad-e Munich the extraordi-
narily attractive travellers destinafion. It is
vellin-g centre, and that several opportun-i-
fies have been offering thems-elves and that
even American means would have been avai-
lable. Naturally, this mor-e refin-ed public who
counts here will require more than the or-di-
nary sort of Propaganda for tourists. Those
people are to be attracfed by events of real
artisfic value only, and which can be found
in Munich only an-d nowhere eise, and which
will be m-ade known by the world’si press.
One will have to make use of all artistic and
organising forces av-ailable. The Festivals
connected- with important exhibitions, for
exa-mple, form-ed a brilliant attraction in the
time.
And to-day, wh-ere all forces must be con-
centrated iss order to come fo a satisfying
result, Munich, which undoubtedly contains an
enormous vitality, has- the missio-n of soving
to-day the Problem of Art, and the world is
sure to t-ake a lively interest.
George Grosz, Straße in Paris
Rue ä Paris — Paris Street
Aquarell — Neuerwerbung des Art Institute in Chicago
VALERIEN FLECHTHEIM
BtLIN W IO, LÜTZOWUFER 13
5
^fthrg. V, Nr. 36 vom 6. September 1931_
English Supplement
fancards at £ 354 and £ 328, an oval Char-
les II. box af £ 340, a pair of Augsburg win-e
jugs at £ 321.
On July 30fh Christie had an auction sale
of stained glass Windows, which contained
interesting German and English examples
which -attained £ 399 and £ 304. Besides,
this sale contained oriental carpets and
French tapisfries, the prices of which were
not to good.
End of the London Season
Summary resulfs of the last auction sales
Munich’s Reconstruction as Art Centre
While in Germany and in Paris auctions had
Jkadually cease-d towards the summer season,
J'e London season remained lively and auc-
’°ns went on un-til the end of July. We give
short outline of some important auction re-
S|Jlt-s, lists of which are being joined into se-
veral of our issues.
. The auction sale of the collection Hirsch
’9s been related fo some time ago. On July
Ofh Christie had a v-ery important auction of
^intings from the collection« of the Marquess
mrzon of Kedl-esfon-e, of Lord Hastings and
I. F. Austin. Italian piefures were success-
P'lly sold: Botticelli (aftributed to B.) "Birth of
t-lirist“ with 850 Guineas; Filippo Lippi, "Ma-
donna“ with 580 Guineas; Ambrogio de Pre-
% "Porirait of a youth" with 550 Guineas.
Of the Curzon pictures, mostly decorative
only a few contributed to the total of
14 117; among those English paintings of the
f!- Century Hoppn-er’s “Portrait of Miss- L-ar-
j’ent" was sold with 420 Guineas, Lely’s "Por-
rQit of Mrs. Stone“ with 150 Guineas, Rom-
1!l‘Y’s "Mrs. Yates” with 490 Guineas; besides
tiere were some Englisch painters of the
’tt- Century: Burne Jones “The Hours“ brought
i^O Guineas, Hom-an Hunt’s "Toscan Girl“
A) Guineas.
The auction sale of the 1-i-brary and picture
^Uection from Ruskins property at Sotheby’s
Morland were sold at £ 680, two landscapes
by the same at £ 450, two prints by Janinet
after Fragona-rd (L’-amour, la foli-e) at £ 330.
The sale of the illuminated Livius manu-
script, the so-called “Live of the Bäfard de
Bourgogne“, a beautifully conserved and
richly deco-r-afe-d French manuscript of the
15ih Century at Sothby’s on June 23rd was
somehow sensational; after hard competition
Gilhofer & Rans-chburg, Vienna, could acquire
it for £ 4400. Another Sotheby success was
the sale of Chauc-er’s Complefe Works (an
early edition, London) for £ 1532, the sale of
an English manuscript of the 15th Century,
extiemely interesting from the poin-t of view
of cosfume and customs, for £ 1600 and the
sale of another French 15th Century manu-
script, the famous “Roman de la Rose“ at
the price of £ 390.
Sculpfures were rare on the market. The
auction sale of the collection Schuster was
however significant for the valuation of Ita-
lian bron-zes in London. The total res-ulf for
24 lots was £ 1265. A bronce figure, lying
'.vornan, from the circle of Giambologna rea-
ched £ 200, a portrait bust of a man by
Leone Leoni £ 100, two stafuettes of horses
from the 16th Century £ 95.
Christie’s auefion-s sale on Jun-e lOth and
llth of the collection Hirsch was guite impor-
tant as to furniture and
su-ccess-
ART of the WORLD * Le MONDE des ARTS
a sensi-
fayences
ehest
was paid with
10 s, a Chip-
secretary with
a Louis XV
can
ex-
on
The
Art Gallery for £
by Mailet for £ 680, a Queen Anne s-ecretary
by A. J. Cohen for £ 210, an interesting Char-
les I. fapestry for £ 235. The total result
amounted t-o £ 5323.
Sotheby’s auction on June 16t-h, 17th and
on J-une 25th were particul-iarly informat-ory as
to the general interest in cera-mics. The first
sale brought Persian ceramics only and was
somehow disappointing considering the excel-
I-ent guality of the objects. A blue jug, 14fh
Century, on vi-ew at the London Exhibition,
attained £ 780 as the highest price reached.
Tihre-e early carpets how-eve-r, a S-assanid g-old
dish, some bronze fittings sold quite
fully.
The auction on Juni 25th attained
fional price for offen reproduced
Saint-Porchaire: £ 3200 and £2000; besides
£560.
some
Sotheby’s sale on May
8 th, which contained
very varied material: a
Madonna byRobbia was
bought by the Span-ish
780, a Sheraton secreta-ry
a h-isp-an-o moresqu-e bowl of the 15th Century
{£ 880) a Caffagiola bowl of the 16fh Century
(£ 350), a Damascene win-e jug (£ 210)
be con-sjdered as well paid. Beautiful
■amples of silber were sold- by auction
April 23rd and Jiune 23rd at Sotheby’s,
attained prices were s-lightly lower than the
average of last year: a Queen Anne bowl
sold af £ 444, two Charles II. and James II.
objects of art; a pair
of Sheraton
drawers
£ 1627
pend-ale
£ 2415,
writing tabl-e with £ 1365.
China porcela-in-es met
with considerable in-
terest: Pariridge acqui-
red two early Kang-
Hsi figures for £ 1522,
Pariridge and Watson
bought a set five Ming
vas-es for £ 1007 10 s.
On Sotheby’s auc-
tions of furniture on
July 171h a Louis XV
ehest drawer by Roger
Van-dercruse Delacroix
(reproduced- in our
Au-gust 161h issue) and
a Brussels tapestry
werte well sold at
£ 1300 -and £ 145; the
resf was disappointing.
The sale on June 12th
however was excellent,
coniain-in-g very good
objects which duly
reached absolutely sa-
tisfying prices: a pair
of rnarble stafuettes
from the circle of Fal-
conei, sold for £ 600,
a Louis XV secrefary
for £ 560, a Brussels
gobel-in a-bouf 1700 for
We m-ay add
notes about
Mario Tozzi, Mirage
Ausstellung — Exposition — Exhibition:
Paris, Galerie Bonjean
The whole art world reads the
«WELTKUNST»
J May 20th came out a great deception, pro-
l/'U the vanishing interest for r-eliquary mat-
-|S|- A few pictures exceeded £ 100, among
l^'ch a portrait of a man by Tintoretto, s-old
tj|r £ 400, a Madonna aftributed to Botticelli
i,^o-vered by Fairfax Murray in Florence,
-’1 £ 400 or a water colour by Turn-er for
' '85.
LSotheby's -auctions on May 13th and- June
i* containing English sporting pictures and
y'naits proved perfectly satisfying: three
-' Chases by Wolstenholme were paid with
.?-00O, a hunt-ing picture by Ferneley with
/()0; a portrait of -a -gen-fleman by Reynolds
i' ched- £ 280, a ri-ver lands-cape by van Goyen
5&0, a sikef-ch in chalk by Watte-au £ 1550,
V^nefian Vedute by Can-al-etto £ 820. The
’r,, , of the auctions of paintings effected a
7e-st Sale.
-I|i n- Sotheby’s auction on June lOth among
n£rs -a p-encil drawin.g by Ingres was aqui-
k for £ 165, a drawing by T-iepolo for £58;
LMy 15fh only the paintings from the col-
'°n Schuster, Amtserdam, found buyers.
■^J-hriisifi-e’s auction on Jiuly 17fh containing
y different properii-es among others some
ik efian views by Guardi, two riversid-e sce-
ifj t>y Avercamp, a portrait aftributed to
-|J'S Hals, effected -a total result of £ 4732.
i\| °Wards the end of July the interest d-imi-
obviously, and Sotheby’s auctions- of
andson’s water colours and modern
, |,lngs we-re no cons-iderable success.
it, ,.0Wever, the auction sale of French and
'S|h prin-fs on July 7fh found many a-ma-
s-eries of fou-r prints Fox Hunfing by
The cafasfrophy caused by the fire in the
Munich Glasp-al-ast has made the critical Si-
tuation obvious, where art Stands at the pre-
sent moment. Pessimis-m, if possib-le, increa-
se-d fo gene-r-al despair, buf the facts have got
dou-bfful fhough whether Munich can prove
such a reserve of disposable forces.
In-formed by competenf persons we learn
that fher-e is an in-fense latent possibility of
reorganisiing Munich as an international tra-
Maurice Utrillo, Montmartre: Le Lapin Agile
Austeilung — Exposition — Exhibition:
Paris, Galerie de France
to be considered objectively, in Order to find
a rem-edy to -a passive hopelessness. Art
life in Munich has un-doubted-ly s-uff-ered gr-e-
atly., but fhere is by no means a regulär diec-
lin-e in the dom-ain of art. The quality of
Munich artists can’t possibly have diminished
suddenly. The -average ni-veau has not b-e-
come lower at the last exhibition than it had
been in the preceding on-es, except perhaps
comparie-d to Munich’s brillianf firnes b-etween
1869 and 1908.
For art tr-ade Munich is quite as impor-
tant -as Paris, London- or Amsterdam, but it
is here confined to old
masfers. Of course
many of the great
buyers are missing
now, which makes
things difficult for art
dealers of middle and
small means.
Neverfheless there
is certainly a cr-isis for
the reason that this art,
solide Munich is dea-
ling with, no longer falls
in line with modern
mentality and no lon¬
ger is required; and
Munich is bound to ad-
just ifseif to the general
demand in arf matfers
of to-day, so that
economical factors are
creaf-ed which will
furfher M-un-ich as a
tow of art. Government
and_ municipal -authori-
ties have don-e their
best, but there remains
one important thing to
be done, that is: fo
make Munich th-e world
known fravellin-g cenfre
for the refin-ed cul-
tivated intercontinental
buying public. On this
con-dition only on-e
could pari with the
German higher mid-dle-
class public who as a
matter of fact hardly
count as buyers now.
Only in case Munich
regains international
luter est and the bene¬
fit of international
means -it can be saved.
First of -all, of course, Munich is bound to
prove that it can reconquer the competenf
international public by similar organisations
as the Wagner and Mozart Festivals, the Mu-
nich Exhibition in 1908, the Mohammed-an Art
Exhibition-, the International Musical Festival
1910, all of which m-ad-e Munich the extraordi-
narily attractive travellers destinafion. It is
vellin-g centre, and that several opportun-i-
fies have been offering thems-elves and that
even American means would have been avai-
lable. Naturally, this mor-e refin-ed public who
counts here will require more than the or-di-
nary sort of Propaganda for tourists. Those
people are to be attracfed by events of real
artisfic value only, and which can be found
in Munich only an-d nowhere eise, and which
will be m-ade known by the world’si press.
One will have to make use of all artistic and
organising forces av-ailable. The Festivals
connected- with important exhibitions, for
exa-mple, form-ed a brilliant attraction in the
time.
And to-day, wh-ere all forces must be con-
centrated iss order to come fo a satisfying
result, Munich, which undoubtedly contains an
enormous vitality, has- the missio-n of soving
to-day the Problem of Art, and the world is
sure to t-ake a lively interest.
George Grosz, Straße in Paris
Rue ä Paris — Paris Street
Aquarell — Neuerwerbung des Art Institute in Chicago
VALERIEN FLECHTHEIM
BtLIN W IO, LÜTZOWUFER 13