Word: garbisches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richer by Degas. On East 76th Street, just a block from Collectors Edgar and Bernice Garbisch, is the six-story town house of Austrian-born Sam Salz, at 76 the dean of New York's private dealers. At the moment Salz is in Europe on a scouting and buying trip, a journey he makes two or three times each year. But during the season, the visitor who rings the plain, unmarked bell is let in by a deferential porter in livery and escorted past a larger than life-sized Maillol nude in terracotta and a 14th century A.D. wooden...
...great powers, the United States possesses the oldest, the most original, and just about the most authentic naive painters," admitted Paris' Figaro Littéraire with an air of astonishment. The show consisted of 111 naive American paintings from the collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, and by the time it closed, 35,000 Frenchmen had flocked to the Grand Palais to see it. In Berlin, 15,000 poured through the Amerika Haus during a six-week showing, and in London the Sunday Times commented admiringly: "We seem here to be offered the image of a vanished...
...Colonel Garbisch, a West Point graduate and onetime All-America center who made a fortune in the grocery-products business, is not surprised by Europe's response to his paintings. Neither is his wife, whose father was the late Automaker Walter Chrysler and whose brother, Walter Jr., is a collector of note. "Europeans had never had the opportunity to see this kind of art before," she explains. The Garbisches bought their first naive paintings to decorate their country house on Maryland's Eastern Shore, then fell in love with them. "I guess it's because they have...