THE BAILLIE PICTURES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2180, 19 June 1914, Page 10

THE BAILLIE PICTURES.

fitting up the galleries. Mr. John -BaiUfc, who is. opening his flxhibitiitii, of J3rtish paintiiigs hi tho Harbour Board U Shed on Saturday afternoon,- is very bus} 8 , with his stuff of .carpenters and ethers, teansfonfting the shed ij-j-to tho semblance of a» art gallery. He -has divided the shed Up into four "roosis," a-fti \vhtu. the work is a|! done the gallery will he Ji very eoiaforta-Me ptaee of resort. The- room iwatfest the tiiv't'raiieo door.; which will he reserved,, for black and White pictures, ta.4t)£t. by 3<St. t -til<} Witer-oolqar room is. 421%. by ,&t>, the- big oil-pain thift roaiu is 9Sfi. Ity BSft., ami the smaller olWooui 35ft* 'by 82ft. . There is also a- tea-yoora, 31ft. by 32ft. On his last visit, 3lr, Bail-lie li-tted up .only three ffiftHories and a smati ant«-.grf]er,y, . In .alii Jrlr. Bailiio displayed at Auckland sows 8.88 Jweees, including oils, water-eekmrs, and etchings, or about the same number as lie showed lieio in J,012, He liu-3 with him, however, about. .600; pfutufes, iii'dnding etchings and a'fift.-he hopes to find space for them all. on. the improvised walls .in'. TJ Sheet,. Amongst -the rtotabls.. pirtur.es to he shown Here which Jutd.to fie unpacked in their, eases At Aueklawl axe an -oiland two -.. w.ater-e<4ou.rs by Frank Braiigwyn, fi.A,, a big laitd-ivfai-ie by East-, two pictures by Georges Ho'iistctj., A.lt l S.A.,.ttf«E ouo hi' Robert Ho-ijo (an intes-stktfj. study ofttifcied '.'The Fortune Teller"),, a rbig.estiva* by Chades. Maekie, and others by. J. W", North, asd H. 'S. Tuke, AJI.A. The■total cfiiieetioa has a seilijig, value of about £50,000. It is a very ffiueht more important, and a very nii-ieh better awl more valuable ealkotian than Mr. BailHe brought U> Now Zealand in 1812.. A private- view of the- pictures is being arranged for this afternoon.