Word: forli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auctions are apt to produce some bargains as well as some fantastically high prices, but the "anonymous" Madonna and Child recently knocked down at a Manhattan auction for $1,200 seemed to be one of the biggest bargains in auction history.
"The long established world leader, French art, is now meeting face to face with its postwar challenger, the art of America." So said the catalogue foreword to an exhibition of 50 French and 50 American paintings that opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. Culled from some 10,000 entries...
They made a surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and...
The top prizes, $3,750 each, went to Fred Conway of St. Louis and France's Edouard Goerg, for pictures that most critics thought inferior. Goerg's Nativity with Birds was as stickily sweet as creme de menthe and appeared to have been sloshed on with a spoon...
Little if anything, reports ARCHITECTURAL FORUM in its current issue, out last week. Church architecture is in a rut, and has been for a generation. "Almost without exception," says the FORUM, "the houses of worship erected in this, country since 1920 could more appropriately have been built in England about...