Word: self-portrait
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...another Manhattan art show and inspect, at the Arthur U. Newton Galleries, a set of portraits by a small, kinetic, kinky-haired Pole named Stanislav Rembski. Most of those who accepted the invitation, however, went less to see a slick icy canvas of Dr. Frank Damrosch or a promising self-portrait of the artist than to have a good long look at a brand new picture of a smiling, self-confident, wispy-haired man of 45 in a blue serge suit. For the past two and a half years that man has solaced thousands of uncertain minds by broadcasting homely...
Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries this week turned their walls over to able 47-year-old Russell Cowles. Interesting, salable, the canvases on view varied in style from Cezannesque still lifes and New Mexican street scenes and landscapes to wild abstractions and such extreme experiments as Artist Cowles' self-portrait in a bathtub...
...usual, lean, immaculate Dr. Valentiner had a sensation to put his show into the news columns. Among the canvases in Detroit was a small self-portrait of Frans Hals, baggy-eyed, slightly disheveled (see cut). It had just been sold by Manhattan's E. & A. Silberman Galleries to Dr. H. Klaus of Minneapolis. Helsingfors, Haarlem, and the Friedsam Collection in the Metropolitan Museum have other versions of the same picture. The last has always been considered the original. Not so, cried Dr. Valentiner last week. The Klaus canvas, he maintained, was the only genuine...
Known were the names of all the subjects but of only one of the artists, who signed himself T. S. Thomas Smith was a mariner, poet and painter. The last two accomplishments he exhibited in what is supposed to be his self-portrait. Under a skull in the corner he penned...
...Hoppner, $12.500; Isabella, Lady Molyneux by Gainsborough, $10,000; a Romney, $16,000. Millet's The Knitting Lesson, once owned by the late Levi Zeigler Leiter, was sold to Manhattan's John Levy Galleries for $16,000-highest price for any French work. A Greuze self-portrait brought $14,000, a small Watteau, $9,400; a painting of the entrance to Rouen's Cathedral by Monet...