Word: sacro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rembrandt for long, but if advertised properly is sure to fool someone who knows nothing about art and buys for the name alone. Under modern methods of publicity, "finds" can be staged which will outdo Mark Twain's story of the success of Francois Millet. Even the sacro-sanct,--the critics,--are far from infallible. The world has not yet forgotten the suit over Gainsborough's "Sisters", which dragged on for weeks with critics of the first rank arguing on both sides before determining whether the picture was genuine, and worth thousands, or false and worth nothing. The much mooted...