Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silver scepter and a fat black cigar, Satchmo began his triumphal tour at 9 in the morning. Rumbled gravel-voiced Louis as he settled himself on the throne on his gilded float: "Man, this is rich." The parade stopped before the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, and the royal party dismounted for a light lunch of turkey and ham sandwiches, pickles, olives and champagne. By the time Satch had clambered back on to the float and settled down with three bottles of champagne at his feet, he felt moved to announce: "This king stuff is fine, real fine...
After long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
...eight weeks, 99,029 Britons had trooped to see the evidence - 400-odd paintings and sculptures that the Royal Academy had bought & paid for from the proceeds of the Chantrey Bequest (TIME, Jan. 10). Were they as good as the Academicians insisted? Or did they belong back in the cellars of London's Tate Gallery, from which they had been momentarily resurrected...
...last week the critics stood withTate Director John Rothenstein-hanging was too good for most of the Chantreys. With Rothenstein they agreed that over the past 70 years of Chantrey buying, the Royal Academy selection committees had picked a high percentage of bad pictures and missed a lot of good ones. Wrote a Manchester Guardian Weekly critic: "Once the eye has been thoroughly glazed by the pompous onslaught of indomitable mediocrity, it is fascinating to wander limply through the galleries, no longer resisting ..." In the Spectator, Harold Nicolson suggested that a detailed, illustrated catalogue of the Chantrey purchases should...
...Director Rothenstein had made his point. The selection committees had purchased no Hogarths, Reynoldses, Gainsboroughs, Constables, Turners, Blakes or Lawrences. Among later artists, there were no canvases by Whistler or Rossetti-though there were a great many by Royal Academicians. This week, except for about 30 paintings and sculptures which the Tate had always thought worth looking at, the exhibit went back into deep freeze -Psyche...