Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/9
Page: p. 34 recto
Description
Letter from Paul Oppé to Sydney Kitson
Letter from Oppé to Kitson which continues across 2 pages. Record of items auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby's.
Date: 1933-1934
Transcription
Courtauld Institute perhaps drove W.G. to his excesses about Holbein; or would have done so had I not given her an hour of the utmost entertainment all on the glory of Burlington house. We parted good friends but I [should] say that I liked the drawing.
Lot 93 was a copy.
Lot 105 was interesting. French Gothic cottages in late manner & colour but conceived precisely like an early drawing copy. I think that the drawing had suffered from over cleaning & was very doubtful Cotman from the first.
Lot 106 was a drawing copy mostly very bad with some J.S.C in it.
Christie's 23 March
Sotheby's 12th April 36 Toledo. I missed this. It was probably behind the auctioneer; I was there when a sale was going on.
Christie's 13.4.8 'Bending the Sale' as the Times had it. A drawing that I'm sure we've seen before. Horrid & very Milesy. Fetched over £100.