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...Harshe are Rembrandt's Girl at the Open Half-Door and El Greco's Assumption of the Virgin. Last week Director Harshe had a third picture to share honors with this notable pair. At a reported price of $200,000, Institute Trustee Charles H. Worcester bought from Wildenstein & Co. and lent to the Museum for an indefinite period Titian's Education of Cupid...
...room in Manhattan's swank Wildenstein Galleries six statues went on view this week. All were formalized, slickly modeled, carved from most expensive materials. One female torso had been executed in rose Milan marble, a pinkish metallic veined stone so rare that it may no longer be exported from Italy. Averaging $5,000 apiece in price, all were the work of suave, spectacled Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski. At the same time word came from Paris that the Ministry of Fine Arts had decided to invest French taxpayers' money in two Lovet-Lorski pieces: a bronze nude...
...fact that he had spent Christmas Eve in his friend's company. The two lived to rank among the greatest of French modernists. Both were mouse-poor and half-insane when they died. Both have been made the protagonists of best-selling novels.* Last week Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries did its best to give Paul Gauguin a memorial show to match the great van Gogh exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art (TIME...
...pictures on exhibition last week: The White Horse, loaned by the Louvre, which shows a long-maned white horse drinking peacefully in a stream while in the background a nude Tahitian girl rides another horse back from the stream to the pasture, and The Call, now the property of Wildenstein & Co. in which three half-clad Tahitians stroll under slender trees against a dark tropical landscape...
...Wildenstein show of portraiture by command was Mr. Salisbury's first exhibit in the U. S. in six years. On view were Cardinal Hayes in his princely robes; J. Pierpont Morgan looking royally severe; the late Calvin Coolidge (lent by the Antiquarian Society of America), the late George Fisher Baker Sr. (lent by U. S. Steel Corp.), Myron Charles Taylor, LL. D. (also lent by U. S. Steel Corp.), Nicholas Murray Butler, D. C. L., LL. D. (lent by the Archaeological Biographical Society of New York), Walter Sherman Gifford (lent by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.), Eugene Grace (lent...