ART FOR THE MASSES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1930, Page 3

ART FOR THE MASSES

GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S PROJECT , (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, July 21. Speaking at the Orphans’ Club Lord Bledi,sloe .said lie had been in communication-with certain .people in. England,, with interests ,in New Zealand, with the idea that they might contribute . something .towards, remedying the deficiency .in the arts in this, .country. . The outcome might be the “stablishmevit of free art, galleries <in the working quarters of-. the four centres. The appeal made was. to establish some exhibitions of reproductions of Old Masters. The sum he.had suggested was pretty large. He had received a cablegram from one of those ■iporoachoig, conveying hearty agreement with the pronOvSal and- willfneuess to help, though not to the limit suggested. ‘ - MARKETING ART WORKS. (British Official Wireless.) ■ ! " ■■■• RUGBY, -July 18. • At a ’ great ■ art sale which realised' nearly £IOO,OOO at'Christie’s auction room,' London,, some famous works, including" several from the collections if the late Lord f 'urzon and the 'late Lord Balfour and the Earl of Fever•jham brought high prices. Sixteen thousand guineas were paid for a (Superb Hobbema landscape, which was the property of the Earl of Eevensham One off the most celfpbrated Old Masters among the 32 Curxon heirlooms, which in all realised -bl.ooo guineas, was Rembrandt’s “Portrait of an Old Man,” which fetched 19.000 guineas. , Other high prices were paid for portraits of Reynolds, 4400 guineas, and by Hoppner, 2200 guineas. > Of twelve pictures from the Balfour. estate, tlio highest price'paid was guineas for Jan van Coyen’s “View of the Dordrecht River.”