Word: henschell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Charles R. Henschel, president of august old Knoedler & Co.. went down to J. Pierpont Morgan's imposing Manhattan library. He had just been made agent for the private sale of a very important painting and wanted to give Mr. Morgan first crack at it. Puffing a black cigar. Banker Morgan smiled...
Last week, trembling with excitement, Dealer Henschel summoned the Press to tell them the complete story. Through the Knoedler Galleries, Mr. Morgan had just sold six pictures from his private collection for a total of $1,500,000. It was the most important art sale since 1929 and 1930 when the Soviet Government, again through Dealer Henschel, disposed of 25 pictures from the Hermitage Museum...
...four years ago. The history of the Metropolitan's diptych is well known. It was discovered in Spain by the Russian Ambassador Dmitri Pavlovitch Tatischev, was bequeathed by him to Tsar Nicholas I, who placed it in the Hermitage Museum in 1845. The same agent, President Charles R. Henschel of Knoedler & Co. who acquired the "Annunciation," reputedly for Andrew Mellon, finally after years of secret conferences in London, Paris, Berlin closed the Metropolitan's diptych deal. What he paid neither the Metropolitan, Knoedler & Co. nor the Soviet Government would say. Three hundred years ago the acquisition of such...
...Boston. Most ambitious of the season's programs is that mapped out by the Boston Symphony. The occasion warrants it. Fifty years have passed since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson undertook to provide Bostonians with a permanent orchestra, brought over German George Henschel to take first command. Despite his 80 years, Henschel came back last week to inaugurate the jubilee season with a repetition of his original program. Conductor Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky anticipated the opening with a superb radio concert, planned his actual return for the season's second week. Scheduled for the winter are the premieres of many...
This afternoon Sir George Henschel will lift the baton he first raised fifty years ago, and will signal the Boston Symphony Orchestra to begin the same program that they played under his direction at their first concert. To Harvard men the occasion will be the anniversary of a most valuable and delightful aspect of life in Cambridge. There has always been a very close association between the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Harvard College...