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...Banker and Investment Counselor Georges Lurcy was going to be a major event in the art world. The catalogue, under the terms of Lurcy's will, was printed in two handsome, hardbound volumes, sold for $7.50. On hand to compete for 65 choice paintings ranging from Bonnard to Vuillard. and other treasures, Was a select list that included top U.S., British and European dealers plus no less than 250 U.S. millionaire art collectors. The results at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries last week staggered even old-hand auctioneers. The first night, bids for paintings rolled up an alltime...
From the first crack of the hammer by veteran Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, paintings by Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener...
...Blocks' opulent, near-northside apartment, hung with the works of Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard, Vuillard, Degas, Van Gogh and Manet, the new portrait of the lady of the house last week had the place of honor. Albright's Mary Block (see cut) sits in a phosphorescent glow by a cluttered table with a clock turned away from her (because she was a clock watcher at sittings, and, Albright quips, "it makes the painting timeless"), grim, bejeweled, glaring back at her beholders, a macabre vision tinted with a pale green note of decay...
Compared with the smallest of the Braques, Afro's immense canvases seem slight. They do reflect facility, sensitivity and a highly personal approach, but somehow their content never quite justifies their expansive delivery. On the other hand, each modest Bonnard still-life, like Vuillard's little Woman in Green, voices far more substance in truly elegant chords of brilliant color...
...both. Except for an Ingres and Van Gogh drawing, a Cézanne oil and a few other late igth century works, the collection consists entirely of contemporary art, ranging from Afro to Vuillard, and including Picasso, Rouault. Matisse, Klee, Braque, MirÓ, Villon, Bonnard, Tamayo. Elvira and another early buy, Max Beckmann's Zeretelli (opposite), are typical of the individual pictorial styles and expressiveness that caught Pulitzer's eye. One of the best painters to come out of Germany in this century, Beckmann did this perceptive portrait of the ballet dancer-prince in 1927 as part...