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Insured for $1,019,000, Chrysler's art show contained 89 Picassos, 31 Légers, 15 Braques, 13 Hans Arps, enough Derains, Matisses, de Chiricos and Rouaults to fill several galleries. It was the biggest and Bourbonniest modern art show Virginia had ever seen, and many a colonel and drawling belle murmured soft but outspoken remarks like "baffling," "Don't see why it's art anyway," "Goddamndest thing I ever saw." Only artist present who was represented in the show was greying, thickset Fernand Léger, who couldn't be lionized because almost nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chrysler in Richmond | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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