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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, at a Manhattan auction, Ryder's Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens went for $23,500 (to Broker Chester Dale, who has spent over $6,000,000 for French and American paintings). Other buyers (mostly anonymous) paid $30,000 for one Toulouse-Lautrec, $27,500 for another. A Corot went for $18,000; a Cezanne portrait of his wife for $24,500; a view of the Seine by Daumier for $15,250, and one by Monet for $11,000; a Renoir nude sold for $12,000. Total evening's business: $221,500 for 20 paintings, almost double what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Current Prices | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Conservative 19th-Century art has been sensationally bullish. Auction examples: Millet's Paysanne Revenant du Puits, $30,000; Turner's Fishmarket, $15,500; Boldini's Ladies of the First Empire, $11,000; Rosa Bonheur's En Forét, $8,000; a Corot landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On the Block | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

From the many collections throughout the University, a representative display has been chosen, which will include works of Beldung, Corot, Klee, Matisse, Picasso, Raimondi, Rodin, and Roualt. The show will formally open tomorrow with a reception to be held in the Naumberg Room of the Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Display of Student Art Works Will Open at Fogg Tomorrow | 5/5/1943 | See Source »

France's renowned Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot showed his study of the ruins of the 900-year-old Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beloved River | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...Wending its serpentine way through the Norman greenery, the river flows past the village of Villequier, once the home of Victor Hugo, begins to turn salty near Quillebeuf, painted by the seascapist Boudin. The exhibition, with six splendid Boudins including a glimpse of the beach at Trouville, ends with Corot's serene view of seaside Honfleur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beloved River | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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