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American-Anderson News
Vol. III No. 1
October 1932
Issued Monthly
October – May

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Highlights of 1931 – 32

Of bargains there were plenty during the past season, for it would be absurd to pretend that the prices of antiques and art and literary property were unaffected by the downward trend of business. From October, 1931 to June, 1932, the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries found buyers for $3,399,674 of fine furniture, paintings, fabrics, books, manuscripts, and indeed such a variety of the sort as would be impossible to detail in this limited space. Former owners thereby received cash - often much needed cash. New owners with money to spend – and in spite of doleful expressions to the contrary we have found that there are plenty of such people who are continuing to collect art and books and who want fine furnishings for town and country residences – new owners departed with the joy that comes in possessing a desired object whether it be Mr. Cluett's beautiful set of Hepplewhite chairs, Lord Lothian's Blickling Homilies, Mrs. Myers' Duncan Phyfe rarities, or a modest desk or tapestry or first edition from one of the last notable sales.

OUTSTANDING SALES
FROM ENGLAND

Lothian. Unquestionably the outstanding event of the season was the dispersal of selections from the Lothian collection of rare manuscripts and books. The excitement and drama this sale afforded in placing in open competition such rarities as the Anglo-Saxon manuscript, A.D. 971, The Blickling Homilies, The Tikytt Psalter, a monument of early English art, or the exquisite fifteenth century manuscript of La Cité de Dieu, will never be forgotten by those who had the privilege of seeing and hearing the sale in progress. A great deal of controversy was evidenced in print and out of print as to the advisability of Lord Lothian's permitting this sale to be held in America. To most fair-minded people the results will silence the criticisms. Before the sale the collection was estimated to bring $300,000; the total realized was $410,545.

Curzon. Formed in part by the late Lord Curzon, in part inherited from the late Baron Alfred de Rothschild, the collection of Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston comprised a small choice assemblage of brilliant and beautiful paintings including a fine portrait by Vigée-Lebrun and a really outstanding Boucher, five Brussels tapestries, the History of Scipio Africanus, woven around 1630, and a delightful group of miniatures and gold boxes, mainly of the Louis XVI period. A true art lovers' collection, it was sold in April and realized $93,672.50.

Bennett. Sir William H. Bennett, one of the greatest surgeons of his day in England, was internationally known as an art collector. His collection, the life work of a connoisseur, comprised paintings by Raeburn, Hoeppner, Gainsborough, Lawrence and other noted artists, rare Renaissance bronzes by master sculptors, Chinese porcelains, and satinwood furniture. Sold in April, the collection brought $98,137.50.

AMERICAN ANTIQUES.

Kaufmann. For their own personal use and gratification, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Carlisle Kaufman collected over a period of seventeen years New England, Pennsylvania and New York XVII-XVIII century furniture for their home in Nutley, N. J. It was with great reluctance that they disposed of their collection October last. There were both rarities and a wealth of usable, desirable pieces of fine quality in beautiful condition. The sale totaled $50,270.

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