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While Tycoon Doherty's entrance into the hostelry business was news, hotel men last week were primarily interested in big doings in Manhattan. In the new Waldorf-Astoria there was bustle and excitement, prior to the formal opening...
Smart Artist Sert contracted to do the Waldorf job year ago, received approximately $100,000 for it. He is full of honor in his own land: his work hangs in Spanish cathedrals, in the Royal Palace at Madrid, in Barcelona's municipal building. He did the murals for the Joshua Cosden mansion at Palm Beach, now the home of Mrs. Hugh Dillman...
Sert at the Waldorf...
...tones of gold, the paintings represented the history of the Alba family, several of whom are saints, since the 14th Century. By the time Alfonso XIII got home, abdicated and got back to Paris, Artist Sert was well along with his next batch of murals. Designed for the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, these paintings were to be seen in the Sert studio during July. Last week workmen were gluing the 20 canvases to the walls of the Waldorf-Astoria's swankiest dining room, the Sert Room which looks out on 50th Street and Park Avenue...
...heads to fill the space. Celebrants at the wedding feast include leaping acrobats, hoary strong men, bull tamers, jugglers, drunkards, surrounded by great billows of silver and claret-colored drapery. Other than those which Artist Sert has painted into his compositions, there will be no hangings in the Waldorf's Sert Room. Paris critics credited the paintings with "the potency of a Michelangelo . . . daring of a Goya . . . more than one reminiscence of the great Venetian colorists like Veronese and Tiepolo...