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...Knoedler's swank Manhattan art gallery made art news by giving an important loan exhibition of Goya paintings (TIME, April 23). This week, with a new season just under way, Knoedler's again made news with another important loan show. On exhibition were 31 canvases by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Carefully selected, the pictures clearly revealed the charm which has made Corot a necessity in every big museum in the world, has caused him to be included in most Grade A private collections. Surprisingly realistic were his Femme Accoudee (lent by Horace Havermeyer), his peasant woman taking care...
...Frankfurt." Because he badly needed money, said Gallery Director S. M. Salomon, he would sell the lot to Mr. Joseloff for ?8,000 ($46,625). Mr. Joseloff agreed to buy provided Mr. Salomon could produce certificates of authenticity, planned to hang his new acquisitions with his already authenticated Corot, Velasquez, Romney, Constable. When Mr. Salomon promised to mail the certificates, Mr. Joseloff paid, sailed, with pictures...
...Colgate went back to Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Last week a Thompson went back to 118 one-armed lunchrooms, but the process was some-what different. In 1927 John R. Thompson, self-made founder of the restaurant chain died leaving to his estate a lot of old masters (Hals, Raeburn, Corot, Diaz, Millet, Rousseau, Bellini) that had cost him some $750,000. To his company he left his Yale-educated Son (Class of 1918). John R. Jr. had been put through the business from the lunch counter up. Homely and negligent in dress, he was regarded by his father...
...Print Collectors, tiny painting by Honoré Daumier, igth Century French satirist; from a Daumier-Corot exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Value: $35,000. Owner: Josef Stransky, onetime conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Said he: "It is like losing one of the family...
...British exhibit is unsatisfactory. The modern French collection (Puvis de Chavannes, Corot, Manet, Monet) is also sparse. But six Metropolitan galleries will be opened on March 11 containing the famed Havemeyer collection (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929) which will greatly swell the museum's resources with fine specimens of Courbet, Corot, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Degas, El Greco, Millet, Puvis de Chavannes, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Veronese, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, De Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Goya. All in all. those who can content themselves with great artistry before Cezanne will find the Metropolitan a fascinating repository of paintings, not as great...