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...just one thing in common: none needed special advertising; all were eminently salable-for the proper price. They were pictures-anyone-would-like-to-own, ranging from 15th Century Venetian Cima de Conegliano to ultra-modern Pablo Picasso. Included were important works by such headliners as Rubens, Fragonard, Van Dyck, Gainsborough. Gilbert Stuart, Cezanne, and those favorites of jocular undergraduates, Neri di Bicci and Pieter de Hooch. It was impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would...
Professor Hind will trace the influences of the masters from the Middle Ages down to modern art. The subjects of his lectures will be as follows: February 5, "Adam Elsheimer and Northern Artists in Rome"; February 12, "Rubens and Van Dyck in their Relations with Italy"; February 19, "Poussin and Claude"; February 26, "Claude's Drawings"; March 5, "El Greco and Modern Art"; March 12, Conclusion: "Italy the School of the world...
...thief has been plundering London's West End homes of art treasures since early summer. He is apparently a cosmopolite, a socialite, an aristocrat. He steals only valuable and famed paintings. He filches mainly during socialite functions. Garden parties are his forte. He made off with a Van Dyck-Feddinand the Cardinal-while guests of Lord Clarendon gossiped over their cups on the lawn. At the Earl of Minto's home, besides the Reynolds, he helped himself to $100.000 worth of the Countess of Minto's jewels...
...salary of $14,580 a year, four times that of sharp-tongued Mrs. Philip Snowden, one of the B. B. C.'s three governors. Among his Lordship's not inconsiderable possessions are 500 acres of good Hertfordshire and Warwickshire land, an extensive collection of Old Masters (Van Dyck, Sir Peter Lely) and the romantic ruins of Kenilworth Castle, which any U. S. tourist is at liberty to visit on payment...
...Churchill, the Austen Chamberlains (she sponsored the show), the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Wellington, Margot Asquith. Mayfair booksellers announced an unprecedented sale of Italian art books. At this commercially auspicious moment, Art Dealer Godfrey Phillips of London ordered sent from Belgium a canvas by Sir Anthony Van Dyck which he intended to buy for $100,000. The picture, called Concert des Anges, shows a life-size Madonna and Child surrounded by buxom angels. When the packing case arrived in London the express company told Dealer Phillips that the box had arrived in damaged condition. Said he: "Never mind...