26 SEPTEMBER 1925, Page 3

The announcement of the withdrawal of the Leverhulme art collection

from the sale room in London and of its forthcoming transference to New York for disposal in the Anderson Galleries has rather startled London. Expensive preparation had been made for the London sale, but it is said that Mr. Anderson's offer for the whole collection was so handsome that it could not possibly be refused. The moral is being drawn that London has ceased to be the centre of the world for art sales. We shall know more about that when the sale has taken place in New York. Mr. Anderson is an Englishman by birth. Even if he does not recoup himself for the sum paid for Lord Lever- hulme's collection he will at all events have attracted everybody's attention to his already famous sale room.