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...exhibit was staged at the Wildenstein Galleries by New York City's Quaker Emergency Service (local and foreign relief). The artists had been rounded up by the famed Paris dressmaker in absentia, Mme. Elsa Schiaparelli, and consisted largely of well-known European expatriates...
Such memories of the past were evoked last fortnight by a superb exhibition of 69 paintings at Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery. There fortunate Francophiles could travel, in three rooms, all the way from Paris to the sea. People who had never been to France could get a very good idea of what affected those...
...same day that Hitler marched into what remained of France, Manhattan art lovers marched into the Wildenstein Galleries to see the biggest exhibition of France's famed Painter Camille Corot ever held in the U.S. Arranged for the benefit of the Salvation Army War Fund under the somewhat ironic title, The Serene World of Corot, the show filled two large galleries and a smaller room, overflowed into a corridor. Included were 74 paintings, eleven drawings and etchings, nine autographies and several personal souvenirs. More than half the paintings, borrowed from private collections, had never appeared in public before...
...movie to see what some critics considered the most stunning show of the year. Arranged by a long list of socialite sponsors for the benefit of the public Education Association of New York, it was correctly entitled "Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism." In the lofty, skylit galleries of Wildenstein & Co. visitors saw 48 selected masterpieces by Cezanne, Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Marie Laurencin, Matisse, Derain, Pascin, Picasso, Modigliani. Visitors who regarded any of these reputations as unfounded were quickly disabused...
...Hung in the Wildenstein Galleries was the best private collection of iSth-Century French art in the world. The lifelong accumulation of San Francisco-born David David-Weill, president of the Council of the National Museums of France, senior partner of the international banking house of Lazard Freres & Cie , this anthology of fragilities changed hands last March. The reported price of $5,000,000 paid by happy Dealer Georges Wildenstein established him firmly as the French Duveen...