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...Jean de Botton is the bellwether of a small group of French painters who confess that the chief aim of their art is to give pleasure. They disavow both literal story-telling and the abstractionism of painters who paint to please themselves...
...twelve pictures in de Botton's first one-man show in the U. S. are notable for sinewy, flexible composition and color, a sort of high-spirited withdrawal from both cynicism and enthusiasm. Some of the small figures are minutely painted but faces seem to bore him; they are indicated by a few haphazard strokes, or simply by highlights on forehead and chin...
...Jean de Botton was born in Royan 37 years ago, of a French father, an English mother. His parents tried to make him a diplomat but Jean, already a worshiper of Tintoretto, Mantegna and El Greco, stood them off, earned a living doing posters and sketches of furniture. He first won general notice in 1927 with Nu an trois-mâts (nude and three-masted ship). Of another picture, Léda, a critic said that it delivered the kick in the stomach characteristic of genius. De Botton's portrait of Author Jules Remains (Men of Good Will...
London's Sotheby & Co.. famed art auctioneers, recently issued an elaborate 171-page volume with 62 rotogravure plates entitled, "Catalog of the Magnificent Contents of 148 Piccadilly. W. I." No. 148 Piccadilly, W. I. was built in 1865 by Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, father of the first Baron Rothschild, who was elected to Parliament for the City of London in 1847 but remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest...
Most spirited bidding in the furniture section last week was for a secretaire by Martin Carlin, cabinetmaker to Louis XVI, which Dealer Edward Duveen bought for $40,000. Top price among the paintings: $87,500, by Thomas Agnew & Sons for Pieter de Hooch's quiet Dutch Courtyard. Less costly but equally decorous were van de Velde's Calm Sea with Shipping ($10,500) and Metsu's Woman Cleaning Fish ($14,000). Victor Rothschild's ancestors apparently did not go in for nudes...