Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being a landmark in the scientific treatment of art. On the cover of the Daumier catalogue is no lithograph or painting but an X-ray photograph. The X-ray shows a section of the wood panel on which Daumier painted La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress), a celebrated work lent by the Louvre and insured for 3,000,000 francs...
Lastly a check of the books not located is being made to determine whether the books are actually in the stacks, have been misplaced or are lent. There was no indication as to the length of time necessary for the undertaking...
...only the swankest art show Los Angeles had ever had, but the biggest. Some of the numerous masterpieces on view were lent by Connoisseurs Marion Davies, Sam Katz and Edward G. Robinson. Gilt-edged treasures included: two Titians, three Tintorettos, two Rembrandts, four Reynolds, such old favorites as Millet's Man With a Hoe, such modern equivalents of September Morn as Duchamp's Nude Descending the Stairs. So great a glut of masterpieces overtaxed the capacity of the Art Association's gallery (an annex to the Town House on Wilshire Boulevard, originally built for San Francisco...
During the past two years, more than 400 prints each year have been lent to students for decorating their rooms, but this year the practice has been discontinued because the collection of prints from which the loans were made will not be available for this purpose...
Savannah's potent Citizens & Southern National Bank, anxious to lure big business to Georgia, lent Union $1,000,000 outright. From other banks $1,500,000 was obtained. Union stockholders bought enough $30 shares of Union common stock to provide an additional $1,500,000 needed. Union's Savannah plant started operation in July 1936 and Union has now caught up fully with the paper revolution. Last year it made 7,000,000,000 of the U. S. total of 50,000,000,000 paper bags. Its $10,800,000 bag sales were...