High Prices for Pictures.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 12 June 1914, Page 8

High Prices for Pictures.

4 ■*) she auction - room record of £40,000 for a picture, established in Paris recently, when Messrs. Duveen Brothers, of London, gave that sum

for Rembrandt's "Toilet of Bathsheba,' 'was beaten at Christie's Art Sale Rooms, London, a few days later, vrtien Messrs. Duveen, after a moderate contest with Messrs. Agnew, paid £41,370 for a full-length portrait of Rotnney, representing Anne Lady I.)e La Polo, in a superbly painted satin gown, leaning on a stone pedestal. The previous highest price paid for a picture at auction in England was the £24,150, given last summer by the same enterprising firm for a Uaeburn.

A small woody landscapeiby Hobbema, the chief treasureof the Oopenheim collection, realised 15,000 guineas (Mr. Kniiiierson), as against 3,800 guineas the same picture fetched in 1890, the record I'or a picture by the master remaining at £.18,000, given for a larger example at the Steengracht sale in Paris last month.

Altogether the Oppenhei'm pictures produced about £26,000 and the 'miscellaneous properties about £9:5,----500, so that the aggregate of the day, amounting to close on £120,----000, exceeds the largest total of any single day at Christie's.