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...painting; and its sympathetic account of the artist's crotchety life cleared the air of much second-rate chatter. Biographer Mack's new subject is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa,* who died of drink and exhaustion in 1901, aged 36, the greatest French master of line between Daumier and Picasso...
...generously enough to admit a painting of industrial buildings by Classicist Charles Sheeler. Even more varied was a display of 180 prints and drawings, from the 15th Century to the present, from which visitors could get an idea of how differently Labor looked to Pieter Bruegel, to Honoré Daumier, to James A. McNeill Whistler...
When the Pennsylvania Museum of Art had its big Daumier show last autumn (TIME, Nov. 8), 14 of the largest and most valuable oils exhibited were listed as the property of "An Anonymous Lender." Few Philadelphians knew that after the exhibitions these paintings went right back into the Museum's storage rooms as part of a $1,000,000 collection of paintings shipped from Paris last year to be held there on "indefinite loan." The lender, still anonymous, is not the only European collector who has recently found it expedient to store his art elsewhere. Last week the Pennsylvania...
...exhibition of caricatures was organized by a new Franco-British Association of Art et Tourisme, sponsored by Their Excellencies the British and French Ambassadors, and numbering among its active officers Anglophile André Maurois. Frenchmen, who are still fond enough of Daumier and Grandville (TIME, Nov. 8) to use their drawings in modern advertisements, got plenty of fun out of their English predecessors and contemporaries, Hogarth, Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshank et al., represented by 391 sketches, engravings and lithographs. But this was only a foretaste of the grandeurs to come...
...fervor ("you want to sing, dance, yell, get drunk, and pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...