Word: knoedlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan art firm of Michael Knoedler & Co., quiet, old and svelte, has a quasi-institutional aura which many dealers envy. At least once a year Knoedler's puts on a "prestige show," a big loan exhibition of masterwork in which no single item is ostensibly for sale. Last week, Knoedler displayed against the black velvet of its inner rooms 58 borrowed pictures by three French artists of the early 19th Century: Gros, Géricault, Delacroix. The gate receipts were to go to a society called "La Sauvegarde de l'Art Fran...
...Bonaparte at Milan and accompanied his army during the first Italian campaign. Charged by the Emperor with the duty of selecting artistic booty, he is responsible for the nucleus of the Louvre's vast treasury. Little known in the U. S., Gros was represented last week at Knoedler's by 17 pictures, six of them lent by the Due de Trévise. Best battle picture: Murat Beating the Egyptians at Aboukir...
...never admit the general public to their own, major Manhattan art marts have come to consider themselves semi-public institutions, frequently stage expensive, elaborate loan exhibitions that can bring them nothing but prestige. Well in the top rank of such shows was one that opened in Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week, the most complete showing of the works of Toulouse-Lautrec the U. S. has ever seen...
...Manhattan art critics were surprised twice in quick succession last week: 1 ) when the swank Knoedler Galleries opened their season with an exhibition of 21 flower paintings by the wife of a Hollywood producer. and 2) when the paintings turned out to be not so bad. Mrs. Bessie Lasky is the wife of Mr. Jesse Lasky. Slender, pale, serene, with curly Titian hair and a love of Chinese pajamas, she has been painting ever since the Laskys became prosperous about 15 years ago. Of her subjects she says: "I understand flowers better than anything else. To me they are human...
...Suez Canal only less spectacularly than Mr. Mellon has from his banks, railroads, oil wells and aluminum diggings. Last item listed by Mr. Mellon was the great collection of U. S. historical portraits assembled by the late porcelain dealer. Thomas B. Clarke, and long held by Manhattan's Knoedler & Co. for $1.250,000. Each portrait of the 175 is of and by a character of first national importance and Mr. Mellon's acquisition of them, a fact hitherto not widely known, was of itself a big item in the week's art news...