Sale of % +2. The Collection of the late ISAAC COOK, Jr. Tuesday Evening, May 17, 1927 AcSAO.POMo ce 0 Pur, At the Cook Residence 3 Hortense Place The House will be open to visitors Under the Direction of Sunday, May 15, Monday May 16, Messrs. McCaucuen & Bure ‘ for inspection before sale. A. A. SeLxirnkK, ductioneer. ur t pl A le Since 1914, about $35,;0 bold sketch nth to} W. Hf. Bi the peal: pr teynolds pi ight ’—sol¢ art dea the Corot, a painted in bidd began and lo the fir on the Re; nning at s $1 > the jor pictures apathy ne pier rawn A nel and rted, The uch interest ider he Cook reside when 00 on INGS BRING AT AUCTION night et a I he auctionee th the colle the ‘late Reid Northrup the block The Gainsborough paint ef Mrs. Siddo century xby for $3000, bringing ice of ece, painted on a called ‘Port 1 at $2850 to Max Sz ler. Safron also bought study ing the auction. The | wood- actress of sand gray light, for and Sold Under the Hammer. Forty-four paintings from the collection of the late J including a Gé ] : Reynolds,.and a Cotot—brought sale con- | nee p first of pictures in St. Louis ction of realized < ing a ns the went ait of and sea the Gainsbor- at $1500, clim mount of nolds $1000 150 ntere ed at $10 ul selling price munv figure b the auctioneer, before the of the hat richly causing 500 was \ A A and clos n furth in the t collecti erected { 4 {hem to wooded ourbet d hich, ex ttloneer, bed to )0-a bid A mini- plaeed elkirl bidding | rot. did not arouse bidding for it be Ing at er con wo ma on, was'} several be with- hunting rew one cept for Silence fell upon the crowd. It } drawn | A water-coler by, Mdwin* Austin Abbey—the study of 4: sea-shore sromenade—brought one bid of | $200 and, when it went begging, j was withdrawn MecCaughen | art dealers in charg: the Sale, also withdrew a Delacroix picturing the mad Quixote, which is said to have been’ bought 35 years ago for $4500 Producing one bid / of $500, the picture was taken down, Thomas Wright Buys Two. | A’ strongly ecuted pastel of rpers in the field, by women f Leon lHermitte bt bought for $900 by Thoma Wright, invest- and Place. He also purchased a Mauve water- 1 ment broker, of Port teristi study of sheep and shepherd, for $550 Next to the Reynolds and Gains borough, the best prices paid were $1700, fo : ( n landscape bought. by W. H. Bixby> $1500 for |the D’Aubigny—‘‘Washerwomeén on the Oise—bought by A..S. Love. of 44 Westmoreland place; $1300 for a Jerome harem scene, with char- acteristic silken. finish, bought by | Bixby; $1000 for the Fortuny “Les |} Amis,” a mas rpiece in composi- tion which took the Prix de Rome in 1856, bought. by Field of sold to Edward bought also a Meissonier for A Vibert was bought by Max Weinberg bought 75. John T. Davis r $350. Other paintings—water-colors and oils brou $100 it all the way from $5 up to Another Auction Friday. It was announced that the paint- ings withdrawn last night with several other paintings and some 1] brac, wi boric 2 put up A UE tion Frida night, again the Cook residences The late Isaac Cook J) was the son of the only maker in the coun try. to achieve and market™a suc cessful champagne He; first took in interest father, who shortly befo his ° friends Gibson, the Knight, the His or the drou He died la was stricke: le bathii his summer Pool, Me I sale Alice» Mudd ge wOU r4 HOMO Lat i Vopaper Ud PPawe 40 Paintings in Cook Collection | ell for $16,045 2Qem@Art Patrons Attend . ‘ion at Hortense @ Place Ga lery. Approximately forty pa inting of the collection of the late 1ac Cook, Jr., were sold at auction for $16,045 at the Cook residence ut Hortense 3 place last night. About 200 persons crowded the art galle of the residence, attract- ed by the Gppentiaiy to pur the most representative group of pictures which have been o ered in St. Louis during the last twenty year ase The top price was brought by a Gainsborough, a sketch of Mrs. Sid- a Wnelis actr 1 collecting d a the English actre 4 was knockec ela for $3,000. harles ana number of illustrator, and Ashton painter n pictures through hi had begt re his » Which down to W. H. B burchased a 1 nting Cook purchased the Gainsborough thirty- five yea ago for $1,000 ction was valued Sir Joshua Re ynolds’ “Portrait of n F } r $100,000 up to 1918 a Lady’ brought the next h sted with prohibition price, $2,850, which was paid t Sted ow ie Bers Saffron of the St. Louis Art Gal- would have to prepai lery. The portrait dered a ith, and sold many of 00d example of the arti ’3 work. pieces, among then ome “Moorish Bath, about ler only nude in the « ollection, went t September when he ixby for $1300, ana Bixby also SS bse © dis purchased for $1000 a work by For- in the ¢ un tuny y Carbo, “Les Ami ai won the Prix de Rome ir ee ke H Ht F tad Wy ” Anton Mauve’s “(She DP in Winter was sold to Thomas Wr onducted for Mrs, He also purchas t for F a marine by Chase, “Coming into Port, Another Chase, eae went to Cook.’his widow. i & ° b a small rank Hee aly for $41. Edward A. Faust acquired for $250 aoe OO ih Sa ainance by eissonier. The work is a characte t ene done in pastel. Vibert’s nity and Impudence’”’ Weinberg for army Dig- went to Max (Seu Washerwomen aubigny, was sold number of pictures were set aside when present showed no enthusiasm to bid. The sale was conducted by McCaughen & But With A. as auctione The selle a bid of $300 for Gustav Court “Hunting Se ene in the Forest Some Daintings de- kirk as ‘‘decent paint- ‘decent painter brought no general bidding and “were with- 1eld, Cook, the son of the SAREE: f which made Cook’s Im- mpagne, died la July, | an estate estimated at ap- proximately 500,000. The gale will be day night, when Ings, Miniatures the company perial che completed additional oil water colo rs and els will be offered SSS Sale of Collection of Valuable Paintings The Collections of Isaac Cook, Jr. Pape, Messrs. McCaughen & Burr A. A. SELKIRK, Auctioneer. IN@ Hl. IRIENONOILIDS = 25 s« 30) zn A : ; y FRE. _ViBERT, JEHAN Georces (1840-—) Paris Hes (aes 1. “DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE”’ 8 x 10 Medals: 1864, 1867, 1868; 3rd class 1878; L. of Honour, 1870 J {, ; (/ ie MEIssonieEr (Jean Louis) Ernest (1815-1891) Lyons Ue Fut 2 “THE ORDINANCE” 6x9 Medals: 3rd Class 1840; 2nd Class 1841; Ist Class 1843, # $50. 1848; or Honour, 1855, 1867, 1878; L. of Honour, 1846; Officer, 1856; Commander, 1867; Grand Officer, 1878; Member of Institute, 1861, Munich Academy, 1867; Honorary Member of Royal Academy, London and other academies. _Lyncn, ALBert (1851—) Peruvian oO “ON THE BEACH’ 10x 14 DAUBIGNY, Cuartes Francois (1817-1878) li aes 4, “WASHERWOMEN ON THE OISE” 10x 16 Medals: 2nd Class, 1848; 1st Class, 1853; 3rd Class, 1855; e 41500. Ist Class, 1857; 1st Class, 1859 and 1869; L. of Honour, aves 1859; Officer, 1874. _Swan, Jonan Maca.ian (1847) English = “LEOPARDS AT PLAY” 15x21 Honorable Mention, 1885; Silver Medal, 1889; Gold Medal, 1900; Associate of the Royal Academy in 1894; Academician in 1905; Member of the Royal Institute. 1/50. / lap, SSSR ete RRR YA Ra EAS, SR ) ig Logot (Jean Baptiste), CamiL_e (1796-1875) upper “FISHING BOATS AT ETRETAT” 14 x 22 Medals: 2nd Class, 1833; Ist Class, 1848 and 1855; 2nd Class, 1867; L. of Honour, 1846; Officer, 1867. VP Hircucock, Grorce (1850—), Born Providence, R. I. “FIELD OF HYACINTHS” 15 x 23 Member: A. N. A., 1909, Paris, S. A. P.; Vienna Acad- emy; Munich Secession; Officer Order of Franz Josef. Awards: Honorable Mention, Paris Salon, 1887; Gold Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889; Medal, Columbian Ex- position, Chicago, 1893; Medals, Berlin, 1896; Dresden, 1897; Vienna, 1898; Munich, 1900. GEROME, Jean Leon (1824—), Vesoul CWA Dit ~—"*MOORISH BATH” 13 ¥17 Medals: 3rd Class, 1847; 2nd Class, 1848, 1855; of Hon- our, 1867, 1874, 1878; i Sculpture, 1878; L. of Honour, 1855; Officer, 1867; Commander, 1878; Member of Institute, 1865; Professor in Ecole des Beaux Arts, 1863. hes Mauve, Anton (1838-1888), Zaandam Mono Noi Lf “SHEEP IN WINTER” 14x 20 Medals at Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Vienna, Antwerp and Paris. Member of the Dutch Society of Arts and Sciences, the Societe des Azuarellistes Belges, and a Knight of the Order of Leopold. | No. 1. es VIBERT—8 x 10 Ng oe ae ii COX LI—ALLAWYAHT “St ON — - TX OI—ANOLYO. wl Me INT y . ° . oo - : oe oe DS OI SUNSIEUOM EL 7 “Osi t, ae OC. Boxpint, G. (born at Ferrara, Italy) pete f Wirts 10. “ON THE GRASS” 7x10 Genre and Portrait Painter. His style somewhat resem- bles Fortuny’s. Zz ¥ 50. Reynoups, Sir Josuua (1723-1792) Tg effi a Ob dy Z yee Af, Born Plympton, Dovenshire Bee “PORTRAIT OF A LADY” 25 x 30 Jz Wit GainsBoroucH, THomas (1727-1788) WA. Se ff a 2 if Born Sudbury, Suffolk ae “MRS. SIDDONS” Sketch Z Me. 550 Kor Deracroix (Ferdinand Victor), EucEengE (1799-1863) Charanton St. Maurice 13s “DON QUIXOTE” 13x16 L. of Honour, 1831; Officer, 1846; Commander, 1855; Member of Institute, 1857. oi x bse Ken ae LO 2 Cazin, JEAN CHar_es, Born Samer (Pas-de-Calais) 14. “FRENCH VILLAGE SCENE” 18 x 22 Medal: Ist Class, 1880; L. of Honour, 1882. L’Hermitte, Leon Aucustin (1844-) é Pie 7 4rd ‘ Born in Mont-Saint-Pere (Aisne) eno i ; 15 “WOMAN REAPING” 17 x 22 Medals: 3rd Class, 1874; 2nd Class, 1880; L. of Honour, | ~- 1884. Axssey, Epwin Austin (1852-) Born at Philadelphia, Pa. 16. “A FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY” 18 x 25 Member of New York Water Colour Society and London Society and London Institute of Water Colours. Barcue, Cuartes (died 1883), Paris gs “THE SENTINEL” 9x 13 Een er “NYMPHS AT THE BATH” 10x 13 Awarded medals for lithography in 1867 and 1868. Pictures are noted for excellence of colour and technical execution. Fup. _Cuase, Harry (1853-), Woodstock, Whe Might 19. «COMING INTO PORT” 7x13 Elected an A. N. A. in 1883. Courset, Gustave (1819-1878), Born at Ornans 20: “HUNTING SCENE IN THE FOREST” — 16x24 Medals awarded in 1849, 1857 and 1861. ho Fortuny Y Carso, Mariano (1838- Nuge Born at Reus in Catalonia HW Loe “LES AMIS” Wl ibe uly } (a Won the Prix de Rome in 1856. 4k Hassam, CurLep (1859—), Born in Boston OD: “NEAR THE LUXEMBURG GARDENS” 16x26 Member: A.N.A., 1902; N.A., 1906; A.W.C.S., N.Y.W. C.C.; Boston A.C.; Ten Am. P.; Munich Secession (cor,)i: Assoc, Soc. Nat. des Beaux-Arts; Nat. Inst. Aa Lotos C. Awards: Bronze medal, Paris Exp., 1889; gold medal, Munich, 1892; medal, Columbian Exp., Chicago, 1893; prize, Cleveland Art Assoc. 1893; Webb prize S.A.A., 1895; prize, Boston A.C., 1896; second class medal, C.1., Pittsbureh, 1898: Temple gold medal) PIA. FAs, 1399: silver medal, Paris Exp., 1900; gold medal, Pan-Am. Exp., Buffalo, 1901; gold medal, St. Louis Exp., 1904; Clark prize N,ACD., 1905; 3rd ‘class medal, Cal iritts= burgh, 1905; Lippincott prize, P.A.F.A., 1906; Carnegie prize, S.A.A., 1906; 3rd prize, Worcester, 1906; Sesnan gold amedal,. PA. F.A., 1910; Sed’ Wear Clank spiize, Corcoran A.G., 1910; Evans prizé A.W.C.S., 1912. Howe, Wriiiam Henry (1846—), Born Ravenna, Ohio “RETURN FROM MILKING” 12 x 16 Member: A.N.A., 1894; N.A., 1897; S.A.A., 1899; Nat. Inst. A.L.; Salma C., 1891; A. Fund)S:: Lotos C: Awards: Hon. mention Paris Salon, 1886; hon. mention, New Orleans Exp., 1885; 3rd class medal, Paris Salon, 1888; silver medal, Paris Exp., 1889; Temple gold medal, P.A.F.A., 1890; grand gold medal, Crystal Palace, London, 1890; gold medal, Boston, 1890; medal, Columbian Exp., Chicago, 1893; gold medal, California Midwinter Exp., 1894; gold medal, Atlanta Exp., 1895; Officer d’Academie, Paris, 1896; Chevalier of the Légion of Honor, 1899; silver medal, Pan-Am. Exp., Buffalo, 1901. i) Ww PEPER ATELIER RTE TIDE AGN LS IAS RLS = =~ eS? — SET SAEED ERE MET nas fl Se NE SS EssEN, JAcop Van 24. “LIONESS” 10x 15 Weeks, Epwin Lorp (1849—), Born in Boston US. “SCENE. EN’ INDIA” yan Sketched and painted in Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus and Tangier and is particularly noted for pictures of East- ern life. Member of the Boston Art Club. Honourable mention, Paris Salon, 1885. : Trl # MG 938. DEVE SE Sipe mo UlS