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Several of Meadows' newest purchases-including a Cézanne, a Renoir and a Bonnard-are intended for his personal collection in Dallas. There they will help to fill the gaps left on the walls by the suspect paintings, now being examined in Paris. A $150,000 Jackson Pollock will go to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. But the lion's share, ten paintings bought from Wildenstein & Co.-including four Goyas, three Murillos, a Zurbarán, a Juan de Sedilla and a José Leonardo-will go directly to S.M.U., to become part of a collection...
There they were, scattered through the 15-room mansion of Texas Oil Millionaire Algur Hurtle Meadows, elegantly framed paintings by nearly every leading painter of Paris. You name them, Meadows had them-Picasso, Matisse, Dufy, Derain, Modigliani, Bonnard, Degas, and on and on. For insurance purposes, they had been appraised by New York Art Expert Carroll Hogan at $1,362,750. On the market, works by such artists might fetch $3,000,000. But, confided Oilman Meadows to his admiring guests, they had cost him "closer to $400,000 than a million," and maybe as little...
...shifting from oil to oils, Meadows' luck and his eye for a bargain failed him. Last December he invited in Dallas Art Dealer Donald Vogel to discuss putting some of his French masterpieces up for sale. "It was a crushing experience," Vogel recalls. "When I examined a Bonnard closely, it just disintegrated before my eyes. The colors were not right, the texture was not right, and I knew that the picture was elsewhere, in a rather noted collection...
...BONNARD by Annette Vaillant. 230 pages. New York Graphic Society. $27.50. A cheerful, gossipy book embellished with 53 color plates, 92 black-and-white photographs and 79 line drawings by Pierre Bonnard, a painter who looked like a postal clerk on the point of tears. Bonnard was, in fact, a failed lawyer who fell in with artists in Paris, and never recovered until he died at 79. His range was nearly as wide as his lifespan: Paris posters resembling those of Toulouse-Lautrec, portraits of midinettes with the geisha gestures of Hiroshige figures, pointillistic experiments with gossamer landscapes, indolent nudes...
...Bravo for delivering the goods in your story on American fashion designers [Sept. 9], except for an astonishing omission. Any roster of our designing Establishment without Donald Brooks is like a rundown of ranking painters that bypasses Bonnard...