Word: art
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently the Metropolitan Museum announced an auction sale of paintings no longer deemed worthy of wall space. Last week the euphemistically-termed "surplus" art was sold. The highest price was $3,500, paid by Circusman John Ringling for Hans Makart's Diana's Hunting Party, a giant canvas (15 by 32 feet), garish and breezy as a circus poster. This will hang in Mr. Ringling's sunny, spacious museum at Sarasota, Fla. For more than 100 pieces the museum received $53,442. Meticulous connoisseurs called it sheer profit, good riddance...
...still displayed, last week, in a Manhattan courtroom. Was it the work of Leonardo da Vinci? To this question Georges Sortais, French connoisseur, had answered YES, and the owner of the painting, Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City, had believed him. But Sir Joseph Duveen, potent millionaire art dealer, had murmured NO, thus preventing the sale of the painting to the Kansas City art museum. Therefore Mrs. Hahn had sued Sir Joseph for $500,000 (TIME, Feb. 18). The trial involved comparisons with the famed and very similar La Belle Ferronière in the Louvre, also perhaps...
...Into the courtroom came J. Conrad Hug, the Kansas City art dealer who has twice mortgaged his home to obtain money to combat Sir Joseph. A withered, white, frail little old gentleman, he told how he had arranged the sale of the Hahn painting to the Kansas City museum for $250,000, how the Duveen dictum had quashed the bargain. He said that he dealt in picture frames, paintings and etchings. Sir Joseph's lawyer, Louis S. Levy, was quick, acid. "The picture frames are a very big part of your business, aren't they...
...ikons. Excitedly, with an accent like a musical comedian, he dilated for an hour on Renaissance pigmentation, explained both how and what colors were used. He called the Hahn painting "translucent," and the Louvre painting "dirty." Technically he was wise, but Lawyer Levy confounded him with questions on art history and showed that M. Chernoff's advice had rarely, if ever, been sought in weighty controversy. Sir Joseph chuckled as the Chernoff lecture began. Later he gazed into a newspaper with obvious boredom. When M. Chernoff gave his opinion that the Hahn painting was a Leonardo and that...
...Manhattan is a primly-styled, stone building which houses the Anderson Galleries, famed red plush repository of art and art auctions. On the third floor is tiny Room 303, known as the Intimate Gallery, littered with picture frames, books, mucilage pots, framed and unframed paintings. In the room, at almost any time during the winter season, may be found a keen-eyed little man in a baggy grey suit. He peers inquisitively through silver spectacles, his grey mustache and hair are scraggly, uncombed. His name is Alfred Stieglitz. He is a lover and maker of photographs...