Word: artfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plays at one time or another. Playwright Shaw's most famed reply to such offers was that which he made to Sam Goldwyn. When the most egregious producer in the world assured him that his work would be treated not as a commercial venture but as art, Shaw answered, "Mr. Goldwyn, you are interested in art and I am interested in money...
...Manhattan art firm of Michael Knoedler & Co., quiet, old and svelte, has a quasi-institutional aura which many dealers envy. At least once a year Knoedler's puts on a "prestige show," a big loan exhibition of masterwork in which no single item is ostensibly for sale. Last week, Knoedler displayed against the black velvet of its inner rooms 58 borrowed pictures by three French artists of the early 19th Century: Gros, Géricault, Delacroix. The gate receipts were to go to a society called "La Sauvegarde de l'Art Fran...
...Safeguard of French Art is the creation of a rotund, twinkling Frenchman, the Due de Trévise, whose great grandfather, one of Napoleon's marshals, was killed by an infernal machine in 1835 while riding beside King Louis Philippe. In gratitude to the family, the King gave their name to a street, the Rue de Trévise near the Folies-Bergère. When the Folies first opened it was gaily called the Folies-Trévise, a name which the furious family succeeded in getting changed. The present Duke likes to talk about this regretfully...
...Duke founded the "Sauvegarde" as a socialite, money-making organization to eke out Government care of French art treasures, of which he is a noted connoisseur. The particular passion of the Due de Trévise is for painting of that period when Napoleon's eagles had deflected the operatic ardor of the French revolution into the ardor of Empire...
Paul Frankl, famous in Europe as an authority on medieval art, is speaking on late Gothic architecture this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Fogg Museum. A former professor of art history at the University of Halle in Germany, Frankl is noted for his extensive studies of the Middle Ages...