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...Metropolitan had bought the picture (for a reputed $200,000) from Knoedler's, a 57th Street gallery which had bought it "deliverable in Manhattan" from "someone" abroad. The diplomatic exchanges would take some time. Meanwhile Knoedler's wasn't saying who the "someone" was, and the museum held on to its saint...
Last week a better, bolder painting caused a stir on Manhattan's 57th Street. Belgian Paul Delvaux' Temptation of St. Anthony-painted for a Hollywood competition (TIME, Mar. 25)-was drawing tiptoe crowds to the Knoedler Galleries...
Word had gone out that Delvaux' Temptation, featuring three pink ladies, had barely squeezed past U.S. customs officials. Moreover, the painting could not be reproduced in full. By Postoffice standards, the fact that the ladies were painted with pubic hair placed an undue emphasis on their nakedness. Conservative Knoedler's tucked the shocker away in an upstairs corner...
...Manhattan last week, the Knoedler Gallery honored the 100th birthday of one of the finest U.S. artists...
Last week two of the more gifted novelists of recent years made art news of a decidedly choice sort. One was the 45-year-old, German-born, U.S.-citizen-to-be, Author Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front). He lent Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries, for non-commercial exhibition, his fastidiously chosen collection of modern and 19th-Century French...