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Word: chardin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Terrace Villa Réals brought 275,000 francs; Farmhouse, 115,000 francs; Head of a Philosopher, 415,000 francs. Watteau's Étude pour la Famille brought 260,000 francs; Enchanted Island, 475,000 francs; Enseigne de Gersaint, 470,000 francs. Twelve still life canvases by Chardin brought prices ranging from 26,000 francs to 220,000 francs, while his self-portrait reached 126,000 francs. Latour's Portrait of the Painter Silvestre went for 140,000 francs. Per-roneau's Portrait of the Painter Guille- quin brought 250,000 francs. The Louvre got Durameau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sales | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...Touching the non-graphic arts only in the sculpture of Donatello and Michelangelo and the reliefs of Ghiberti, the book scarcely fulfills its inclusive title. Orpen strives to be religiously impersonal in his praise, but his painter's predilections for Botticelli, Giorgione, Moroni, Lotto, Holbein, Hals, Velasquez, Vermeer, Chardin, Hogarth, Raeburn, Richard Wilson, shine through. Conspicuously omitted from mention is Andrea del Sarto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Outline of Orpen | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

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