CURIOSITY

While the major auction days are now over, the season hasn't been one of them, and a few interesting sessions are still attracting art lovers to the Hôtel Drouot. In a sale of Renaissance bronzes belonging to Mr. X..., Mr. Henri Baudoin, assisted by Mr. Sambon, a bust of Admiral Doria, a sixteenth-century Italian bronze, fetched 18,100 francs; a bust of a young prelate from the Venetian school fetched 7,100 francs, while the Louvre bought a young seated shepherd from the Paduan school for 5,800 francs. A very fine bronze, Woman Removing a Thorn from Her Foot, fetched 10,000 francs. A series of six seventeenth-century Aubusson tapestries with small figures sold for 252,000 francs, against an estimate of 300,000 francs. A very interesting group in Niderwiller bisque, depicting Louis XVI giving Franklin pages reading "Independence of America and Freedom of the Seas," fetched 50,000 francs.
In a sale of old master drawings, Mr. Lair Dubreuil sold a lovely page by de Wailly, from the French school of the eighteenth century: "Prêche à Saint-Sulpice" (Preaching at Saint-Sulpice) for 4,650 francs.

LA FURETIÈRE.

HOTEL DROUOT

Room 2. Exhibition. Estate of Mr. X... (2nd sale). Modern furniture, objets d'art, tableware, paintings, engravings (Mr. H. Baudoin; Messrs. Reilach and Charraud).

PONT DES ARTS

The Weekly Review has just held its second luncheon of the season. At the end of this meeting, following a short presentation by Mr. François Le Grix, editor of the magazine, the friends he had invited expressed their support for the program developed on the first day.
The time when painting salons feared the summer season is over. The Salon des Tuileries, housed in the Palais de Bois at Porte Maillot, will extend its exhibition until the end of August. It will even be partially renewed, as sales have left many gaps in the exhibition space, and several artists are already hanging new paintings that are changing the face of the Salon.

Yesterday, the Académie des Beaux-Arts awarded the Alphonse de Rothschild Grand Prize, worth 12,000 francs, to the painter Georges Leroux for his triptych of the 1914-1918 war, exhibited at the 1924 Salon; The Houllevigne Prize, worth 5,000 francs, to the sculptor Daillion, for his marble group, The Stone Age, which earned him the 1924 Medal of Honor; two Trémont Prizes, worth 1,000 francs each, to the painter Dargouge and the sculptor Baudry.

Mr. Fenailles, a member of the Company, presented the Academy with the work entitled Boucher, which he authored and is part of the Old and Modern Masters series.

The Higher Council of Fine Arts awarded the Salon Prize to Mr. Martin-Ferrières (Jac), painter, from the Salon of French Artists, and travel grants to:
Painting: Ms. Aman-Jean, from the Salon des Tuileries; Messrs. Hamaux and Maxence, French artists.
Sculpture: Messrs. Zwobada, Couvegues, and Prat, French artists.
Architecture: Messrs. Defrasse, of the French artists, and Ricome, of the National Society of Fine Arts.
Engraving: Mr. Gandon, of the French artists.
Decorative arts: Mlle Langrand, of the decorative arts.

THE WATCHMAN.