Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fingers snapped and the bids jumped up last week in Manhattan's American Art Association-Anderson Galleries until the auctioneer's ivory hammer knocked down a 15th Century portrait bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana to Lord Duveen of Millbank, for $102,500. It was the highest price paid at an art auction in New York since Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest...
...Marie Dressier), produces an unusually dextrous and amusing comedy, partly in the mood of Moliere farce, as it exposes greed and ingratitude in Dr. Haggett, partly as romance when it turns out that the Raggett's old-maid servant is not only the subject of a magnificent Bean portrait but also Bean's widow, tenderly devoted to his memory...
...Roeder is no bore. His crowded subject, the climax of the Italian Renaissance (1494-1530), could easily trip and entangle a pedestrian fact-plodder, but Author Roeder slips adroitly through its thickets, his eye always on one of his relay of four guides (Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino). Not a portrait of some composite Renaissance man but four overlapping biographies of typical men of the time, The Man of the Renaissance is one of the solidest choices yet made by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Readers will not get quite so many pages (540) for their money as they...
...husband is excellently conveyed to us by the author. It is this phase of the novel which is most interesting. The evolution of the love of Catharine for Martin and the lessening of her regard for her ruthless, sacrosant mother are both given to us convincingly. The portrait of the mother, Florence Willet Carmichael, succeeds remarkably. She is a grasping, hypocritical woman, capable of any actions which might further her own interests. The helplessness of her husband in the face of her "holy crusade" is pathetic...
...foremost Anglophile, André Maurois moves with dignity and tact through this Edwardian picture gallery. Sobered by his position and his responsibilities as a guide, Author Maurois is careful not to indulge his Gallic lightness but he does occasionally point a faintly ironic anecdote. As he passes from portrait to portrait, only one is able to draw phrases of condemnation from his respectfully admiring lips. All good Edwardians will applaud his taste. Author Maurois gives it as his considered opinion that Edward VII was a gentleman, Wilhelm II a bounder. As a sympathetic exhibition of the English pre-War generation...