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...where the Kings of France once hunted in the royal forest, and where swarms of U. S. art students now spend their summers trying to learn to paint landscapes, three black-hatted French judges sat down last week to try a notorious old case. On trial were Jean Charles Millet, pudgy grandson of the late great Jean null (The Angelus) Millet, and deaf Paul Cazot, charged with forging and selling at great prices an unknown number of presumptive Millet canvases...
Corot's life was a model of peaceful, unexciting bourgeois comfort. When he was an oldster he was kindly, simple, generous to charities and other painters. He once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a 10-year 1,000-franc annuity instead. Dealers took advantage of his sliding scale of prices whereby he charged the rich much, the poor little. Paris knew him and loved him as le bonhomme Corot, a brawny celibate who in his youth could and did knock a peasant down with his fist...
...anonymous collector to another for $29,000. Others of the school: a small full-length Gainsborough from Mrs. Reid's collection, $5.100; a Lawrence from the late Henry Seligman's collection, $19,000; a Hoppner, $12.500; Isabella, Lady Molyneux by Gainsborough, $10,000; a Romney, $16,000. Millet's The Knitting Lesson, once owned by the late Levi Zeigler Leiter, was sold to Manhattan's John Levy Galleries for $16,000-highest price for any French work. A Greuze self-portrait brought $14,000, a small Watteau, $9,400; a painting of the entrance to Rouen...
...Joan Miro and Salvador Dali who this week in Manhattan's Julien Levy Gallery exhibited his latest works. He had drawn people with roses for eyes, lamb chops for lips, an aged man with a lobster on his head, a melting grand piano. Claiming to be "obsessed" with Millet's Angelus, he showed variants of the motif with wheel-headed gleaners picking up forks and a poached...
...back to Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Last week a Thompson went back to 118 one-armed lunchrooms, but the process was some-what different. In 1927 John R. Thompson, self-made founder of the restaurant chain died leaving to his estate a lot of old masters (Hals, Raeburn, Corot, Diaz, Millet, Rousseau, Bellini) that had cost him some $750,000. To his company he left his Yale-educated Son (Class of 1918). John R. Jr. had been put through the business from the lunch counter up. Homely and negligent in dress, he was regarded by his father's good friends...