Word: sketches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Georges/' does much of his own sleuthing. Nothing delights him more than to work in his office after closing hours and pore over what has become one of the largest collections of auction catalogues in the world. Occasionally, Wildenstein's may have an item, say, a quick sketch by Mary Cassatt, for as little as $100; from there the prices soar up to six figures. As an exhibition hall, the gallery has led a double life. On its fifth floor it has put on an average of five benefit shows a year that were of museum caliber; this...
Newman takes the space and the care of look thoroughly into Clifford's presuppositions; the result is a thoughtful and interesting sketch. The selection on Einstein is shorter but no less satisfying. Einstein's own questions are dealt with fairly in a coherent outline of his discoveries and some of his own classic illustrations. The editor and the expositor in Newman have somehow blended perfectly here...
Questioned Canaday: "Why should a pleasant but not at all exceptional sketch of a young girl, a sketch with no signature, no date, shaky pedigree, and so far as I can see no direct kinship to a Degas, be offered as a Degas?" Why should "an only moderately proficient painting called Le Trompeur and a pleasant but unexceptional still-life, without dates, signatures or certifications, be offered as Manets when the best you can say for them with certainty is that in a weak way they share certain characteristics of Manet's art? And when a painting is recognizable...
...sketch for the cover was done from life in the Vatican by Italian Artist Pietro Annigoni (who painted last January's Man of the Year cover of John F. Kennedy). The painter's reaction to the Pope: "So nice, so simple, so direct, so close to you . . . and yet so terribly distant. Even the simplest conversation with him ended with a few words putting you in front of Eternity...
Rudolph Oetker has a lot to make the bankers happy; he collects pictures almost as avidly as companies, has a Frans Hals portrait in his library, and a striking charcoal sketch by Käthe Kollwitz in his headquarters office at Bielefeld. Its title is Aid the Starving, but it seems to reassure the moneymen...