26 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 32

Messrs. Christie's important sales are yet to come, but the

other day they sold some fine modern etchings, by Meryon, Whistler and Cameron, for substantial prices. Messrs. Puttiek and Simpson too have devoted a day • to prints, the catalogue of which suggested that some uncommonly attractive bargains were to be picked up. But the print collector's opportunity will come at Messrs. Sotheby's next Tuesday and Wednesday when • three hundred modern etchings are to be submitted. It will be highly interesting to see how an unusually long series of Mr, Augustus John's etchings—his best work, as some think—fare in the sale- room. The Whistlers include the famous " Adam and Eve and a fourth state of the wonderful 1! Forge," incom-

parable as a study of reflected lights. CONNOISSEUR..