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...Institute of Modern Art celebrated the opening of its new building on Beacon Street by presenting a retrospective exhibition of the works of George Rouault, an artist whose genuine passion for color affords a channel through which a mystical insight into certain aspects of life can be expressed...
...playing the best supporting role (in Stagecoach) of 1939, makes good pictures. He buys still better ones. The library of his Riviera (near Hollywood) home has a special niche over the mantel. It is the shrine where Tom Mitchell hangs his latest purchases. In it have hung successively a Rouault Christ, a Whistler view of the Thames, a Modigliani woman with red hair, an Utrillo landscape, an oil sketch of a screaming woman from Picasso's Guernica. Last week it was the Picasso's turn to move out. Tom Mitchell had a Rembrandt...
...landscape her aunt had painted before Impressionism existed. As an art teacher until she was 40, when she married Manhattan Lawyer Cornelius J. Sullivan, Mary Quinn kept buying the work of unknown artists. Once she stranded herself in Paris by spending every sou she had with her on a Rouault and a Segonzac. She never had resources like those of her good friends Abby Rockefeller and the late Lizzie P. Bliss, with whom she helped found the Museum of Modern Art in 1929. But Mary Quinn Sullivan's pioneering judgment brought her a notable collection for a notably small...
Other big prices: $2.500 for Rouault's The Clown; $1,600 for Modigliani's Lunia Czechowska; $3,500 for a Derain still life; $3,000 for a Redon flower piece. Collector Chrysler also bought small Picasso and Cézanne water colors for $1,350 and $1,625 respectively...
...variety are such pictures as Benton's quiet, lonesome Conversation; Doris Lee's whimsical, clever Holiday (see cut); Joe Hirsch's Two Men (see cut) which, using a very broad, low canvas, catches breadthwise the gaunt intensity of two workers; Jack Levine's Rouault-like Night Scene, where the ruddy heads and hands of the two figures emerge from a blue-black murk like blazing coals...