On one side are maudlin academic paintings and sculptures, mostly of Native Americans.
Academic paintings sold for as little as $275 in the 1940's.
With each step, Disney seemed to come closer to a perfect naturalism, a painterly realism that suggested academic paintings of the 19th century.
The engagement lasted for 17 years before they were married; all the while she continued her academic paintings and won awards from the Salon.
In the Lower Mezzanine, a vaulted red salon with 19th-century academic paintings stacked to the roof, look out for William Etty's 1846 canvas of an armored figure in a plumed helmet riding a white horse.
His output was uneven (the seven academic paintings here are uninspiring), but his range is impressive, from illustrations published in the livrets accompanying the Salon exhibitions to designs for dishes and book marginalia that look like comic-book storyboards.
Then, after an auction of nineteenth-century art (May 5) notable for its sumptuous academic paintings by the likes of Bouguereau and Alma-Tadema, the house begins its series of contemporary-art sales.
But his work doesn't have the kind of sensational sexiness that makes the academic paintings of Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme, for example, guilty pleasures for modern viewers.
