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...walls of the Knoedler Galleries in Manhattan this week is a show built around periods of painting that until recently have been out of fashion. It is a choice Connecticut selection of 41 paintings from Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. While it ranges from Rembrandt to Andrew Wyeth and includes Hartford's latest bequest, Renoir's Monet Painting in His Garden, the show gets its impact from the sound and fury, anguish and ecstasy beloved by baroque and rococo artists of the 17th and 18th centuries...
...father's footsteps. The one is Andrew Wyeth (TIME, Jan. 7), at 40 the most revered young realist and perhaps the highest-paid painter in America. His father, N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, was half-forgotten until last week, when an exhibition at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries restored him to his rightful place in the nation's art history...
Evidence of how far Stavros Niarchos has come in only eight years of collecting will be displayed next month when his top 63 paintings (valued at more than $5,000,000) will go on exhibit for charity at Manhattan's Knoedler Gallery, then will travel in February to Ottawa's National Gallery. Bought after the boom in 19th century French impressionists was well under way, the paintings in the Niarchos show will include no less than four each by Cézanne, Gauguin and Degas, six Rouaults, nine Renoirs, seven Van Goghs, plus outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso...
Shadowy & Aloof. What catapulted Niarchos overnight into the front ranks of 20th century collectors was his purchase for more than $2,500,000 of 58 paintings and one Degas sculpture from the Edward G. Robinsons' collection last spring (the Knoedler show will include 40 of the Robinson paintings). But Niarchos did not attain his standing as a collector solely on the strength of the Hollywood actor's selections. He made his first modest purchase when he picked up Winslow Homer's A Voice from the Cliffs (which now hangs in his Manhattan penthouse office) and a Renoir...
...Editor-Publisher Pulitzer (he succeeded his late father in 1955) owns about 140 works of art and has become one of the U.S.'s fastest rising collectors. This week, for the benefit of Harvard's Fogg Museum, more than half of his collection is on exhibit at Knoedler's in Manhattan...