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Suzanne Eisendieck was born in Danzig of Polish parents. Her father was a lumber dealer. For two years she studied in Berlin, then moved on to Paris with exactly 300 francs in her thin purse. She got a Montparnasse garret so small that she had to lean halfway out of the window to paint at all. Already she had developed a style. She wanted to paint the mythical world of 1900 (eight years before she was born), when ladies wore feather boas and bright feathers in their hats, when gentlemen had whiskers and drank champagne. Because she was much prettier...
Last week's fur story involved three of the most potent fur firms in the country: Eitingon Schild Fur Corp., whose $9,789,000 sales last year entitle it to the position of world's largest fur dealer; Balkan Importing Corp., New York office of the big Rumanian firm Pellimpex; and Alexander Bernstein Co., privately owned so that its figures are kept secret, but generally believed to be among New York's ten biggest. Some months ago Eitingon and Bernstein received shipments of furs worth $800,000 from Pellimpex, were aided by Balkan in selling them. Pouncing...
According to the independents, the growth of these four firms is largely due to pressure from the manufacturer on the dealer. Said retiring A. F. C. President David B. Cassat at last week's convention: "The ways in which coercion is practiced by these factories are in some cases subtle and hidden and in others they are brutally frank. . . . When and if a dealer fails to accede ... it is generally insinuated to him that if he did business with a certain finance company, perhaps he would get more prompt delivery. . . . Sometimes a direct threat of cancellation of his franchise...
...fact that he taught George Bellows and Rockwell Kent to make their first litho graphs, that the fluttering ribbons of his eyeglasses have been in the thick of every U. S. art battle for a quarter of a century. His first wife, Marie Sterner, long a Manhattan art dealer, was among the first to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. His son, Architect Harold Sterner is a World War veteran and designer of the Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor...
...lifelong accumulation of San Francisco-born David David-Weill, president of the Council of the National Museums of France, senior partner of the international banking house of Lazard Freres & Cie , this anthology of fragilities changed hands last March. The reported price of $5,000,000 paid by happy Dealer Georges Wildenstein established him firmly as the French Duveen...