Word: knoedlers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last March Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries held an embarrassed showing of some of the works of Jules Pascin. The pictures were poorly chosen, the show was poorly attended, poorly criticized. It contributed more than a little to the melancholia which made life unbearable for Pascin himself. Last week was another Pascin exhibition at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery. Socialites, reporters, art critics flocked to it. Standing sponsors were such people as smartchart Editor Frank Crowninshield, Art Critic Henry McBride, Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Adolph Lewisohn. An elaborate illustrated catalog was prepared. The show...
...William Emerson and I.D. Levy are among the private collectors who have lent art treasures to the exhibit. Prominent dealers who have aided with donations include the Robert C. Vose Galleries, the Howard Young Galleries. Knoedler and Company, and Sir Joseph Devine. The public as well as all members of the University are invited to visit this major exhibition, which will be one of the most complete of its kind in the United States
...portrait has always remained in the family. But last week Baron Chesham, Lady Betty's great grandson, decided he could afford to part with it. For Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries offered more than $500,000 on behalf of an anonymous U. S. collector, record price for a Reynolds...
Manhattan's Knoedler Gallery managed to secure Meindert Hobbema's The Hamlet in the Wood for $158,400, the highest price of the auction. Messrs. Colnaghi of London bought Rembrandt's Portrait of Burgomaster Six for $39,600, the world's record price for an etching. A total of 64 paintings and 10 Rembrandt etchings were sold. The sales realized $925,012. Of this sum $250,000 had changed hands in four minutes. Auctioner Muller could well afford to smile on the River Amstel. His firm had received the customary 10%, amounting in this case...
...included among the world's most popular portrait painters. Thirty years ago, Eastman Johnson and Daniel Huntington, painters of highly unequal merit, were accustomed to use their brushes, as though they had been valets' whiskbrooms, upon the handsome exteriors of fashionable people in Manhattan and elsewhere. Knoedler's Gallery is largely responsible for the change. Since the time when its senior partner began to import the work of foreign celebrities, native workmanship became less socially desirable. U. S. persons, having arrived at the pinnacle of pretension which permits them to order portraits, would prefer to have themselves...