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...loyal Sketch Clubber for 50 years was red-faced, sedate Portraitist Louis Hasselbusch. He never missed a Christmas party; when he died in 1938 he left the club $500 towards the party's upkeep, plus his "pictures, sketches and studio effects." Last week this apparently inconsiderable be quest turned out to be a windfall. In his studio's litter was a small oil painting on a wooden panel, signed H. D., and titled (by Hasselbusch) Conjugal Parisiene (sic). Joyful experts identified it as one of famed Lithographer Honore Daumier's rare paintings. The Sketch Club banked...
...Paris shortly after Cartoonist Daumier died there in 1879, a blind pensioner of the Third Republic. Original Daumiers nowadays sell for five figures. Museums, if not collectors, must think twice before buying so harsh a domestic satire as Conjugal Parisiene, never before reproduced. No Daumier was jolly old Portraitist Hasselbusch. Typical of his work is Turbaned Turk, which the Sketch Club has hung in his memory. It will never need a safe-deposit vault...
...London, hairy old British Portraitist Augustus John, incorrigible bohemian, foe of the Royal Academy, glared at an exhibition of landscapes by his daughter, Vivien, then bought another artist's painting in the same show. Asked his opinion of his daughter's work, he snorted: "Rubbish...
...likes to have its members remembered. Exhibited to that end last week at Manhattan's American Fine Arts Building was a fascinating array of work by vigorous Academicians from Inness to Homer to Bellows, plus notes, letters and early telegraphic contraptions by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the gifted portraitist and first president of the Academy (1826-45), who turned inventor to make a living...
...quality which is rare in art and which sometimes starts more enduring fashions than Treasure Hunts: the intelligent mastery and transforming use of a great past style. In this case it was the so-called "archaic" coolness and clarity of form of 16th-century French painting, after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems almost engraved; her forms are firmly rounded, spick-&-span, in cool, grey-blue space. Most impressive: the Seated Young Woman (see cut), plump and brown in a red skirt and an airy room...