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...matter what art critics may think, art dealers know that, as far as the sale of expensive color reproductions is concerned, the three most popular artists in the world are van Gogh, Cezanne and Maxfield Parrish. Daybreak, Parrish's famed picture showing a boy and girl against a rising sun, has sold over 200,000 copies. Parrish Blue is a well recognized name for the vivid electric blue skies that he has affected for nearly two generations...
...front cover) Any exhibit opening in the wake of the enormously popular van Gogh show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was bound to begin with an initial handicap. As if this were not enough, the Museum's discreet directors last week placed two additional handicaps upon the first comprehensive showing of one of its finest gift collections, simply because the Museum's principal benefactor happens to have a great name and a great modesty. Handicap No. 1 was encountered on the first floor in the form of a gigantic portrait of beefy, bewhiskered Henry Hobson...
...largest exhibition of the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) ever held in the U. S. ended its Manhattan showing last week, packed up for a road show that will include Philadelphia. Boston, Cleveland and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 28). Final figures disclosed that it was the most popular exhibit that the Museum of Modern Art has had in all its six years. Before the doors closed last week. 123,339 people had gaped at van Gogh's brilliant, swirling canvases...
...beginnings of modern art. The great painters of the Renaissance were without exception prosperous men who generally made, if they did not keep, large fortunes. Currently, able artists as far apart as Philip de László and Pablo Picasso are wealthy men. But poor crazy Vincent van Gogh sold only two paintings in his life, received $4 for the first, $80 for the second. He also was able to sell about 20 drawings at an average price of $1.25 each. Today his brilliant landscapes fetch as much as $50,000 apiece...
None of the founders of modern art has been richer game for the journalist than Vincent van Gogh. Within the past two years two lives of him have been best sellers, one a novel, Lust for Life by Irving Stone,* another a scholarly biography by able Art Critic Julius Meier-Graefe (TIME...