Word: crucifixions
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...third of the $250,000,000 was spent on old masters. Chief buyers: Collector Thomas Benedict Clarke, Banker Jules Semon Bache, Motorman Lawrence P. Fisher, Financier-Socialite Joseph E. Widener, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn, many a museum. Chief buy: Delia Francesco's The Crucifixion bought from Anderson Galleries by Sir Joseph Duveen...
Throughout a brilliant and meteoric career, William Jennings Bryan has been the eloquent champion of causes which became generally known as lost causes. Silver-tongued, he has stood for free silver, fundamentalism, and Prohibition. Crucifixion upon a cross of gold is no longer feared; fundamentalism is not generally accepted. Prohibition alone remains to meet the test of history. Fundamentalism, however, is not yet dead, and its potentialities for simplifying the present college curriculum may yet give it a new lease of life...
STALKER'S CRUCIFIXION by Tenor Richard Crooks, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, Organist Mark Andrews and Manhattan's Trinity Choir (Victor, $9)-For those who want their Easter music more orthodox than Wagner conceived it; recommended more for the excellence of its recording than for its musical substance...
...paintings was a Crucifixion, painted by Piero della Francesca (circa 1406-92) on a tiny wood panel (14" x 16"). Into a golden sky, grievously cracked with age, were lifted the cross, the scarlet banners of the soldiery. Humans and horses were drawn with that rude simplicity of Italian Primitives which is pronounced charming by modern sophisticates. This painting, according to gallery officials, had been appraised by experts at $800,000. The other, a similarly styled Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi (circa 1406-69), was said to have been appraised...
Then, while the crowd gazed at each other for ten minutes of increasing bewilderment, the auction proved a fiasco. True, the Crucifixion was sold for $375,000, breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...