Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate of about $1,000,000 worth a year, Hanna willed the museum $20 million in gilt-edged securities. And as a final fillip, last week the museum exhibited the 35 paintings Donor Hanna bequeathed from his own, never exhibited collection. Among them: Manet's Berthe Morisot, Renoir's The Apple Seller, and a late Van Gogh entitled Mademoiselle Ravonx-worth altogether more than...
...Manhattan this week is a show built around periods of painting that until recently have been out of fashion. It is a choice Connecticut selection of 41 paintings from Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. While it ranges from Rembrandt to Andrew Wyeth and includes Hartford's latest bequest, Renoir's Monet Painting in His Garden, the show gets its impact from the sound and fury, anguish and ecstasy beloved by baroque and rococo artists of the 17th and 18th centuries...
...long has this been going on?" asked the late advertising tycoon Albert Davis Lasker (onetime head of Lord & Thomas), one afternoon in 1943. Before him, set up on easels in Manhattan's Wildenstein galleries, stood a $70,000 Gauguin and a $45,000 Renoir. For the man who made such products as Lucky Strike, Palmolive, Pepsodent, Kleenex and Kotex into household words, the world of art was opening. On hand to coach and whet his appetite was his wife Mary, who had majored in art at Radcliffe, gone on to help run a Manhattan gallery...
...rooms are filled with drawings and prints among which are sixteenth century drawings, a woodcut of Durer, etchings by Jacques Callot, and lithographs by Goya and Daumier. The collection also includes the famous Mlle. Eglantine color lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec, works by Renoir and Rouault, and some by Americans such as Ben Shahn...
...Items: a Louis XV Sevres porcelain soupiere, sold for $3,000 in 1941, was bid in at $29,000; carved and gilded Louis XVI armchairs went for $2,500 each; marble-topped, gilded and painted Louis XV commodes for $14,000. Prize bid of the whole sale was for Renoir's sunny landscape La Serre, expected to bring between $120,000 and $140,000, which went to Manhattan's Rosenberg & Stiebel for an even $200,000. The dealer refused to say for whom he was bidding. But sharp-eyed reporters could hardly fail to note the jubilation...