Word: argyrol
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...listed in the various print societies' Best-Prints-of-the-Year selections. He once sold 32 pictures at a crack to Archer M. Huntington. He is one of the few U. S. painters whose works are included in the great collection of irascible Albert C. Barnes, inventor of Argyrol. His pictures are generally as admired by the art world as they are unknown to the U. S. public. Yet the most important fact about Painter Max Kuehne is that he has paid his bills, kept off relief, put a son through college and furnished a comfortable Manhattan apartment because...
Like Philadelphia's Tycoon Albert C. Barnes (Argyrol), Dutch Tycoon W. H. Müller (copper, steamboats) is one of the world's most eminent collectors of modern paintings. Really assembled by Mevrouw Müller, the Kröller-Müller collection of nearly 1,000 pictures contains 98 of some 700 paintings produced by Vincent van Gogh in his lifetime. They have announced that on their death their collection and their huge estate near The Hague, where it is housed, will be turned over to the public, that a large museum will be built...
Durand-Ruel picked an ideal moment to exhibit Renoir. Down the street the new Bignou Gallery had just opened with two important Renoirs as the high spots of its first exhibition; and the inventor of Argyrol, the most colorful collector in the U. S., irascible Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et ante), last week published a large, authoritative, opinionated book on Renoir...
...Argyrol made Dr. Barnes his millions and Art his fame. His museum in Philadelphia is surrounded by a 10ft. spite fence, is opened only to close friends or students with top-notch credentials. The late Paul Guillaume, French art dealer, picked out and bought most of the Barnes Impressionist and Surrealist pictures. Today if Dr. Barnes singles out for his collection one unknown painter, that artist's reputation is supposed to be made. Dealers, therefore, treat him with kid gloves. Less scared of him is able, black-haired Belle da Costa Greene, who once closed the doors...
...hard-boiled Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. sold his Argyrol rights to Zonite Products Corp., pocketed his millions and concentrated, in his French Renaissance chateau behind a loft. fence, upon the finest collection of modern art in the U. S. He never lends pictures for outside exhibition, sometimes handpicks a few visitors to look at them. His guards manhandle enterprising reporters. Occasionally he buys a painting by an unknown painter. The canvas disappears behind Dr. Barnes's fence, but the painter is made. As a judge of art, Dr. Barnes is brusque but no booby...