£72,000 FOR PICTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 9

£72,000 FOR PICTURE

A FAMOUS GAINSBOROUGH (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) NEW YORK, Saturday. The executors of the estate of the late Judge E. H. Gary, who was chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, sold Gainsborough’s “Harvest Waggon,” to Sir Joseph Duveen for £72,000. This is said to be the record price received for a painting at an American auction sale. Sir Joseph Duveen is a well-known dealer in objects of art, and is himself a collector. He has been a trustee of the Wallace Collection, a public gallery in London, since 1926. He presented to the National Gallery last year the “Christ Taking Leave of His Mother,” by Correggio . Thomas Gainsborough, the great English portrait and landscape painter, was born in Suffolk in 1727, and died in 1788. He was one of the original 36 members of the Royal Academy, 1768. His famous “Blue Boy” (Master Buttall) recently went to America, at an enormous price. His bi-centenary was celebrated last year at his birthplace. His famous picture, “The Harvest Waggon,” was the property of the late Lord Swaythling, at whose death last year it was purchased by Mr. E. M. Gary, -who died in August last.