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...used as a weapon if necessary. Swiftly, silently, one December evening, an adept Buenos Aires thief went to work in the Argentine National Museum of Fine Arts. He chose a small (20 by 33 in.), valuable ($40,000) painting, Berge de Lavacourt by French Impressionism's founder, Claude Monet. There was only one guard on duty in the gallery, and he was twice called to the telephone that evening...
...unquestionably the work of an expert: the tricky job of slitting the canvas was notably clean; two more valuable paintings (Cezanne's Bread and Eggs and Edouard Manet's Nymph Surprised) hung beside the stolen Monet-but to an initiate, these would be recognized as unsaleable. Not so Berge (Embankment). This exquisite, frosty scene of the Seine River bank near the Norman village of Vetheuil, where Monet often painted, has been in Buenos Aires since 1912, is comparatively little known elsewhere. Because no complete, official catalogue of Monet's work exists, the painting might well be disposed...
...Soon the line of purchasers at the Museum turned from a timid trickle into a demand. By last week the Metropolitan had sold 60,000 ("Wonderful and amazing," says Ideaman Jayne) of its gay reproductions ("Bright color sells," he adds), including prints by Winslow Homer (Natural Bridge), Claude Monet (Sunflowers), Edgar Degas (Woman with Chrysanthemums). All prints are without lettering, suitable for framing. Best-seller was the Lawrence lush, sentimental Calmady Children (now out of print). Only modern represented...
...pictures of ladies taking the afternoon sun under the island's trees. In the town of St. Cloud, whose park reveals the most magnificent panorama of Paris, Paris-born Alfred Sisley painted one of his best, The Bridge at St. Cloud. In the tranquil village of Giverny, Claude Monet contemplated the ice and snow on the winter stream, and in summer the riot of purple irises and rare water lilies in his garden...
...subjects in a wide variety of ways and having carefully tabulated their reactions, the Institute solemnly announced that—Chicago students like the streamlined deminudes of U.S. Magazine Artist George Petty. After Esquire's Petty, students coolly chose (in order of preference): Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, George Innes, Claude Monet, Doris Lee, Winslow Homer' Jules Breton, Caravaggio, Renoir, Manet,' John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh. Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich blanched not a whit. Said he: "It was perfectly natural. The students like pretty girls and they like slick technique. I look at Petty myself whenever...