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...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...
From Boston and Brooklyn, from Chicago and Worcester, from a dozen private collectors, sheaves of water colors arrived at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week for an exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the most distinguished U. S. artist the gallery ever sponsored: Winslow Homer. It was a shrewd choice as a memorial exhibition. Greatly honored in his own lifetime, Winslow Homer certainly never thought of himself primarily as a watercolorist. Yet modern critics are generally agreed that the U. S. has produced only three men who could create virile, important work in what...
...directly from the basic emotion of fear. But one fact is plain to all eyes: in any showing of African art the bronzes and carvings of the vanished Kingdom of Benin are definitely superior in spirit and technique to other Negro art. Proudly last week in Manhattan the distinguished Knoedler Galleries put on display 31 objects which constituted the most important collection of Benin art ever exhibited in the U. S. Follow the Equator westward across Africa to its crotch where the Guinea coast joins the coast of the Cameroons. Just in that corner stood until...