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...masters are as stable as A. T. & T. Yet a war-plant worker can almost buy a Matisse on monthly payments. Some recorded sales of big-name moderns : a Van Gogh, $8,000; a Lautrec, $4,100; a Cézanne watercolor, $3,000; a Gauguin, $5,000; a Daumier, $5,500; a Picasso...
...huge, thermostated hall where Financier Stotesbury once gave concerts for 1,000 guests. Among the hidden paintings were ten Rembrandts, Breugel's Harvesters, El Greco's View of Toledo, Titian's Venus and the Lute Player, Vermeer's Lady with the Lute, Daumier's Third Class Carriage, Raphael's Virgin and Child Enthroned, a spate of Italian primitives, twelve Sargents, twelve Winslow Homers. The priceless Sèvres porcelains were never unpacked. The medieval tapestries stayed on their long rollers. All were guarded by an electric signal system wired to a specially installed power...
...called the greatest popular artist North America has ever produced. Few in the U.S. have ever heard of José Guadalupe Posada, "printmaker to the Mexican people." But in Mexico he has long been hailed as a prophet of revolution, ranked with Spain's Goya, France's Daumier...
...conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip and Daumier. Paul Stewart, rescued from expert portrayals of smooth crooks, makes a small part as a newshawk the best thing in Government Girl...
Decker's show consisted of 16 eclectically painted portraits, landscapes, character studies. (Habitually, Decker paintings look as if they had been done by somebody else: Van Gogh, Rouault, Utrillo, Toulouse-Lautrec, Daumier.) Said Painter Decker of this parodistic paroxysm: "I have no style because I don't believe in styles for an artist...