Word: knoedlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indirectly another even richer woman sculptor was important in last week's art news. Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, resting from her own labors since her exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries eight months ago, opened the Third Biennial Exhibition of U. S. artists at the Whitney Museum of American...
Historical Portraits. For almost a year the distinguished Knoedler Galleries has owned the famed Clarke Collection of U.S. historical portraits (TIME, Feb. 10), tried to sell them intact for something near their appraised valuation of $1,000,000 without breaking the collection. As a tactful cough to remind the U.S. public that the Clarke Collection is still in their vaults and still for sale, Knoedler's last week borrowed from such assorted owners as J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, Yale University and the Museum of the City of New York another group of 29 historical portraits of first importance...
...important sale of Old Masters' drawings ever held. Bidding with minute, professional nods, Lord Duveen and more than 200 other experts and spectators saw the 460 Oppenheimer drawings knocked down in three afternoons for some $500,000. Outbid by Lord Duveen on the Foucquet portrait, Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries got a Study of San Sebastian by Filippino Lippi for $6,825. London's Colnaghi & Co. paid $21,525 for Leonardo da Vinci's tiny Rider on a Rearing Horse...
...city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today. In this cemetery of old magnificence, half a dozen men supplied the only signs of first-rate life: Casanova the rake, Goldoni the playwright and Painters Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi and Pietro Longhi. Last week Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries put on a show of the Venetian painters who made Venice's twilight tolerable...
This week the swank Manhattan house of Knoedler & Co. proudly announced the acquisition of the Thomas B. Clarke collection of early U. S. portraits. The sale price was around $1,000,000. In Knoedler's de luxe parlors, the occasion was comparable in excitement to the purchase by that firm two years ago for Andrew William Mellon of Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba, from the Soviet Government's Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...