Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City had been unable to prove that her heirloom painting was a Leonardo, or that Sir Joseph was guilty of slander when he pronounced it only a graceless copy of Leonardo's La Belle Ferroniére in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). Therefore she could not extract $500,000 damages from Sir Joseph. He, on the other hand, had failed to impress the jury with his opinions. Therefore he could not feel the pride appropriate to an international art tycoon...
...Xray. This indicated that the painter of the Louvre Belle had first laid down metallic flesh tints (impermeable by X-rays) then painted the jewelry over them. The practice of blocking out the whole figure before adding ornament is favored by artists working from live models. But in the Hahn X-ray the jewelry was clearly visible suggesting that the Hahn Belle had first been carefully sketched then colored in separate sections-flesh, fabric, jewelry. This is a practice favored by copyists...
...jury deadlocked at nine votes for Mrs. Hahn, three for Sir Joseph...
...Museum here an X-ray picture of the Louvre copy of the disputed painting. Supreme Court Justice Black, desiring to hasten the conclusion of the case, urged that an air-plane be dispatched to bring the negative to New York, where, by a comparison with Mrs. Andree Lardoux Hahn's copy, it might decide which is the original...
Chernoff. The next witness for the plaintiff was Vadim Chernoff, a blond Russian expatriate, a painter of ikons. Excitedly, with an accent like a musical comedian, he dilated for an hour on Renaissance pigmentation, explained both how and what colors were used. He called the Hahn painting "translucent," and the Louvre painting "dirty." Technically he was wise, but Lawyer Levy confounded him with questions on art history and showed that M. Chernoff's advice had rarely, if ever, been sought in weighty controversy. Sir Joseph chuckled as the Chernoff lecture began. Later he gazed into a newspaper with obvious...