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...Mellon collection has been assembled almost entirely through the New York house of Knoedler & Co. According to Lawyer Hogan, it is today valued at $19,000,000. Though generally assumed to be one of the finest private collections of old masters in the U. S., its complete make-up is still unknown to outsiders-largely because of Mr. Mellon's habit of issuing diplomatic denials every time the Press gets wind of a new acquisition. If and when the collection is publicly exhibited in a Mellon museum, students and critics will have a chance to view the following world...
Last month Charles R. Henschel, president of august old Knoedler & Co.. went down to J. Pierpont Morgan's imposing Manhattan library. He had just been made agent for the private sale of a very important painting and wanted to give Mr. Morgan first crack at it. Puffing a black cigar. Banker Morgan smiled...
Last week, trembling with excitement, Dealer Henschel summoned the Press to tell them the complete story. Through the Knoedler Galleries, Mr. Morgan had just sold six pictures from his private collection for a total of $1,500,000. It was the most important art sale since 1929 and 1930 when the Soviet Government, again through Dealer Henschel, disposed of 25 pictures from the Hermitage Museum...
...last year's art season was closing, Knoedler's swank Manhattan art gallery made art news by giving an important loan exhibition of Goya paintings (TIME, April 23). This week, with a new season just under way, Knoedler's again made news with another important loan show. On exhibition were 31 canvases by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Carefully selected, the pictures clearly revealed the charm which has made Corot a necessity in every big museum in the world, has caused him to be included in most Grade A private collections. Surprisingly realistic were his Femme Accoudee (lent by Horace Havermeyer...
Loan exhibitions attract attention not only because they show the work of great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these attractions were powerfully present last week in Manhattan when Knoedler Galleries opened what many critics considered the peak of the season's shows-a loan exhibit of Goya paintings. The pictures came from the discreet walls of Andrew William Mellon, Harrison Williams, Oscar B. Cintas (American Car & Foundry), Eugene G. Grace, Edward S. Harkness, J. Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their...