Word: velazquez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Charles H. Senff was sold last week, for Frans Hals's Portrait of a Dutch Lady. It is an interesting demonstration of the force of fashions among collectors that, in one evening's bidding at the same sale, 35 pictures by members of the Dutch School, Velazquez, and Corot (whose works bring the highest prices of all more recent artists) were sold for $346,150. The rest of the collection which onetime Sugar Merchant Senff had made in the 1890's brought the total price to $580,375. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts...
...Blink," went the hammer of the auctioneer. People thought distantly of Velazquez, more immediately of Mr. Sargent, and concentrated what was left of their attention upon a certain Dutchman who was present-one Vanderneut...
...Velazquez (1599-1660) because, long ago, he conceived that the plump oval face of a little Spanish prince with beady eyes would almost achieve piquancy if tilted beneath a hat like a black velvet sofa pillow-that the princeling's rotund body, swathed in the ribbon-counter elegance of his period, would appear almost slight if mounted upon a very fat pony-that the obese quadruped would appear speedy as a blooded stallion if he were poised on his hind-legs against a sky of troubled fire and blown grey cloud. (The result of Velazquez's cogitation, Prince...
John Singer Sargent because, when he was a youth, he had beheld Velazquez' painting, and with discernment enough to realize that he beheld an immortal example of a great master's ability to triumph over his subject, he had copied the picture in the nicest oil-colors on his palet...