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...buzzing excitement of Paris' Salon d'Automne, two proper Baltimore sisters looked about them aghast. "Surely," said the older, "we are not expected to take this art seriously!" Even the painters -Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Rouault-were unknowns. It was 1905, and for the two Cone sisters. Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta, it was the year of their baptism into a new world...
Warmed by the enthusiasm of three expatriate Baltimore friends-Gertrude Stein and her brothers Leo and Michael -the Cone sisters were soon heads over heels in modern art. At Gertrude Stein's urging, Miss Etta traveled to Picasso's grubby Montmartre studio, picked up a handful of drawings for 100 francs. The sisters met young Matisse, started buying his work. They were off to a glowing start toward building their fabulous collection of modern French art, today valued...
This week Manhattan's Knoedler Art Galleries is giving New Yorkers a rich sampling of what the two wealthy Baltimore spinsters accomplished in a lifetime of tasteful collecting. The 67 paintings, drawings and sculptures (chosen from the Cone Collection of more than 350 paintings and drawings and 50 sculptures) are also a tribute to the abiding good taste of two strongly different personalities...
...more!") But the chaperons, the sedate hot-chocolate parties and all the genteel elegance of yesteryear are being put to rout. "Ay, chica," cries 1955's blue-jeaned swain as Night and Day booms out of the record-player, "you're sweeter than an ice-cream cone and a blue sky!" The girl's fashionable ponytail bobs happily in acknowledgment...
First they fed him nine baked bananas at a meal. Then they tried oxalic acid. Finally, Jones dipped a piece of sponge in some chloroform, formed a cone with a towel and stuck it on Rice's nose...