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Glass of Water. Lord Beaverbrook, plagued with ailments, stayed home on the Riviera, but chances are that as a man whose favorite painting is a Gainsborough, he would have recoiled from most of the choices. Although such top representational painters as Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth sent comfortably realistic scenes to settle the eye, there was plenty else to make it boggle, from Barnett Newman's eccentric, hard-edge stripes in his Black Fire to Robert Rauschenberg's Trophy II, a pop art combine in four pieces equipped with a real glass of water on a shelf with...
...TURNER. While Constable, Crome and Gainsborough were painters in the rustic style, Joseph Mallord William Turner painted in what Basil Taylor calls the sublime style. With his sketchbook and a change of linen, he wandered about England looking for scenes of abstract emotion, and it has been said that the whole romantic wing of today's abstract painting derives from him. Once he had himself lashed to the mast of a boat for four hours during a severe storm at sea. Critics called the resulting painting "a mass of soapsuds and whitewash." Turner protested: "I wonder what they think...
...superficially similar to the one which before his illness held only horror for him, the danger of overwhelming memory lurks in every familiar image. This is conveyed by simple vignettes steeped in meaning in terms of his past associations. On the wall of his boarding house room hangs Gainsborough's "Blue Boy", the same painting that was his mother's favorite when he was a boy. To him the painting symbolized his position in a family in which he was the protected baby brother of five older sisters, the darling of his mother. Scenes of the into flashbacks...
...Erickson name will more likely be linked to his small but choice collection of paintings, bought largely with the guidance of Dealers Wildenstein and Duveen. Erickson began collecting in 1922, when he bought a portrait of a strange little boy by George Romney. English painters-Romney, Gainsborough, Raeburn-were fashionable in the '20s, but Erickson and his wife Anna were also willing to wander into richer pastures...
...Erickson sale also showed that great art can go down as well as up. A Raeburn that the Ericksons bought for $100,000 in 1927 went for $60,000; a regal Gainsborough that cost $300,000 in 1928 went for a dismal $35,000. A Holbein portrait also went for $35,000, which was $95,000 less than the Ericksons paid. The painting that took the worst tumble was a Van Dyck: it cost the Ericksons $200,000 plus two paintings, went for $27,000 last week...