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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year Knoedler's puts on a "prestige show," a big loan exhibition of masterwork in which no single item is ostensibly for sale. Last week, Knoedler displayed against the black velvet of its inner rooms 58 borrowed pictures by three French artists of the early 19th Century: Gros, Géricault, Delacroix. The gate receipts were to go to a society called "La Sauvegarde de l'Art Fran...
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault's most famous canvas, The Raft of the Medusa,* was painted in 1819, four years after Waterloo. Géricault belonged to the swank Jockey Club and the swank Bourbon Musketeers instead of to the army of Napoleon. But among 23 of his pictures exhibited last week were several such as The Three Trumpeters (see cut), which showed the gift for color and the clangorous Romantic imagination which made Delacroix mourn his early death: "Poor Géricault, I will think of you very often. I imagine that your...
...Vicente Gómez in a Guitar Recital (Decca). Three-disc album of Flamenco and other Spanish music composed (except for one number) and played by a 26-year-old Madrileño whose style is in its way as exciting as that of the great classicist Segovia...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts NBC Symphony in Ludwig van Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, Richard Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Siegfried's Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung...
Doctor Maurice O'Connell of the hospital reported that he was suffering from serious under-nourishment, and though he probably would recover, his name was placed on the danger list. Emery is the last surviving member of G. A. R. Post 26 of Roxbury, and served in the 64th Massachusetts infantry, during the Civil...