Word: gainsborough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Morris Joseloff wandered into London's International Art Galleries on St. James Street, was shown two Reynoldses, a Gainsborough, a Hopper, a Sebastiano del Piombo, a "Master of Frankfurt." Because he badly needed money, said Gallery Director S. M. Salomon, he would sell the lot to Mr. Joseloff for ?8,000 ($46,625). Mr. Joseloff agreed to buy provided Mr. Salomon could produce certificates of authenticity, planned to hang his new acquisitions with his already authenticated Corot, Velasquez, Romney, Constable. When Mr. Salomon promised to mail the certificates, Mr. Joseloff paid, sailed, with pictures...
Produced by Gainsborough Pictures, filmed on a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland, Man of Aran was rehearsed, directed, filmed, developed, printed and cut by a U. S. citizen-the same Robert J. Flaherty who made a great cinema reputation with his Nanook of the North and Moana of the South Seas...
...18th Century English school of painting which always commands good auction prices was this year's unquestioned leader. Top artist was Raeburn with John Lamont of Lamont which went from one anonymous collector to another for $29,000. Others of the school: a small full-length Gainsborough from Mrs. Reid's collection, $5.100; a Lawrence from the late Henry Seligman's collection, $19,000; a Hoppner, $12.500; Isabella, Lady Molyneux by Gainsborough, $10,000; a Romney, $16,000. Millet's The Knitting Lesson, once owned by the late Levi Zeigler Leiter, was sold to Manhattan...
...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Whitelaw Reid: a net estate of $18,589,916; mostly to her children, Lady Ward and Ogden Mills Reid, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. The estate included 16 automobiles, a $290,000 77-pearl necklace, a $15,000 Gainsborough, clothes valued at $50, a debt of $6,543 due from King Prajadhipok of Siam...
...week's auctions in which Raeburn was by far the most prized master was that, in spite of Depression or cooling taste, the 18th Century English school has slipped relatively little. Further significance was that Raeburn, who, along with Romney, was long considered a third to Reynolds and Gainsborough, is apparently drawing even with his more esteemed rivals...