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Millet painted The Angelus in 1859 at Barbizon, France, which gave its name to the Barbizon school of French painting. Said he: "A peasant I am, a peasant I shall die." He saw the humble Barbizon peasants pause in their work to pray at the sound of the Angelus bell. Back in his studio, he painted the picture from memory. He sold it for $120. A French department store tycoon named Chauchard paid $150,000 for it in 1910, bequeathed it to the Louvre...
...Greenwich Village Theatre, gave a noteworthy performance of Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie. Last week, the group carried their plans a step further with the opening of a Museum of Irish Art. Occupying four of the six rooms leased by the Irish Theatre in the Barbizon Hotel, the Museum intends to "contribute the culture and arts of old and new Ireland to the American scene." For the opening it contained an exhibition, part loaned, part permanent, of Irish paintings and sculpture...
...gallery on Grafton Street, Dublin. Sir John and Sir William were eagerly reclaimed for Ireland last week. One of the three Orpens on view was a severe portrait of Solomon R. Guggenheim. Other paintings on view were a seascape by the late Nathaniel Hone, last survivor of the Barbizon School; 20 lively sea and landscapes by George ("AE") Russell. Most indigenous works were a John Keating, called Holy Joe of the Mountains; and Power O'Malley's Irish Madonna, a serene and affectionate study of a Connemara peasant girl clasping her towheaded brat; and 25 or more canvases...
With some diffidence a big studio in the top of Manhattan's swanky Barbizon-Plaza was opened to the public last week for the second annual exhibition of the Business Men's Art Club, New York branch of the Associated Amateur Art Clubs. That organization is devoted to the proposition that in the world of art, tycoons may become more than just customers. Works exhibited last week were more monuments of industry than of art, but critics beamed encouragement, realized that this club and the others associated with it are the finest refutation of the interminable stories of philistinism among...
...sold as high as $10,000. On the untidy profits, Grandson Millet's wife and children thrived. When he was apprehended, the police reported that he had sold more than 4,000 fakes. Cheery, un- daunted, he admitted that the collection he had sold to the Millet Museum at Barbizon was entirely sham. Said he: "I had a good time, but this is the unconventional unhappy ending. The Americans from Missouri, the Continentals and the English fell the hardest. I hope to emerge triumphant, and go back into the art selling business...