Word: durand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Advocate at its punch last night elected R. Gale Noyes, Instructor in English, Dana B. Durand, tutor in the field of History and Literature, and Edward H. Dowey, Instructor in English A-1 as associate editors...
...readers will find his statements as exhilarating and convincing as a homerun. Art dealers and Francophile connoisseurs will be less pleased with what he has to say. Examples : ". . . After 60 years of exploitation, the best examples of Impressionism [Manet, Seurat, Whistler, Pissarro, Monet] are controlled by the original underwriters, Durand-Ruel, which firm slowly releases its enormous stock at propitious moments. . . . Actually they are worth from $25 to $50, but they are sold in terms of old masters-according to scarcity values. "It is talk that keeps Picasso's pictures alive; and when the talk ceases, his art will...
...following article was written especially for the Crimson by Dans B. Durand, instructor and tutor in History and Literature...
...bonds, urged the desirability of doing so, mentioned Bayonne. As the scandal burst last week Premier Chautemps called to his office Letter Writer Dalimier, now Minister of Colonies. "I signed that letter purely as a matter of form," protested M. Dalimier. "I was asked to do so by Julien Durand[then Minister of Commerce] and all the world knows that the bonds of a French Crédit Municipal are supposed to be good!" Thrice asked for his resignation, M. Dalimier at last gave it grudgingly...
...century ago to study law. He was an indifferent lawyer, but his eye for art was alert; he recognized the ability and the future value of the French Impressionists - Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir - at a time when only one other man in France, the late Art Dealer George Durand-Ruel, was willing to take a chance on them. Ambroise Vollard bought his first pic ture, a Degas racing scene, for a few francs. Soon he made friends with the artist, became intimate with the entire Impressionist circle. Next step was to give up his practice and open...