Word: gainsboroughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Henry Edwards Huntington, 77, California railroader and art collector; in Philadelphia, after an operation. He bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," a Gutenberg Bible, the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, etc.; owned the most valuable collection of first editions in the world...
...high in the U. S. as in England. In 1920, his exhibition at Sir Joseph Duveen's Manhattan galleries led to many commissions here, at $5,000 each, for his idealized representations of fashionable ladies. (He had painted Consuelo, onetime Duchess of Marlborough.) He was compared with Gainsborough. His "Portrait of my Mother" looks less like Gains- borough's lacy work, however, than Whistler's calm familiar model by the same name. Only, Madam McEvoy seems not so old as Madam Whistler. In fact one feels she would take a very active hand in life, once...
...Tantalizing art, hey, Mr. Gainsborough - portraiture ? No pleasing your sitters, hey? All wanting to be Venuses and Adonises. Since you have taken, hey, to portraiture, I suppose everyone wants your landscapes...
...indeed, your Majesty," said Gainsborough...
That modern dealers are willing to pay extravagantly for Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney, Reynolds, is not surprising. Gentlemen of the 18th Century always understood the art of being well-kept. While they lived they were blessed with money and untormented by morals. Life was obsequious to them. Death has followed suit. Eighteenth Century painting sold well in the 18th Century. It brings better prices now because, in addition to its literary quality, its sentimentalism, its triteness and the excellence of its technical effects, there hovers over it a formal and elegant carnality which the modern mind likes to encounter. Perhaps carnality...