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...walls of the highly decorated Wildenstein Galleries in Manhattan last week hung a collection of 48 lush canvases, opulently framed, softly lit, richly varnished. Ten of them were mural studies of the Prophets of Israel. The rest were the latest crop of portraits of bigwigs by Britain's Frank O. Salisbury, member of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and favorite portraitist of George...
What the Metropolitan got last week for its money was Watteau's excellent Le Mezzetin, whose full title is Le Mezzetin jouant de la Guitare. In 1932 Soviet Russia needed ready cash, dug Le Mezzetin out of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum, sold it to Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries. Wildenstein lent it last summer to Chicago's Century of Progress art show. It will be shown at the Metropolitan in January...
...hand-picked section of the New York art world last week got a tantalizing glimpse of an important exhibition. The exclusive Lotos Club turned over its main room to an exhibition of 35 original bronzes of the late John Rogers, arranged and mounted by Art Dealer Felix Wildenstein of the Club's art committee. After three days the show was dismantled while newspaper critics clamored for a fuller public exhibition of the same works, hoped that it might tour the country. Fifty years ago a painted brown plaster Rogers Group was a standard fitting in the parlors...
...into new fields and he combined his peculiar gift of almost geometric design with brilliant studies of occupational scenes and actions. Among those who have contributed to the exhibition are: Adolph Lewisohn, Knoedler and Company, Dur-and-Ruel Incorporated, H. J. Sachs '10, Jacques Seligman and Company, and Wildenstein and Company...
...Wildenstein Galleries, increasingly known as the prime spot for socialite artists to exhibit their wares, had a teaparty last week to open their swankiest show of the season. Visitors with slightly buttery fingers wandered through three rooms to see drawings, water colors, etchings and oil paintings by Prince Henry XXXIII of Reuss, his cousin the Countess Regina Felide Héléne Louise Amadée zu Stolberg-Stolberg, and a Mr. Purcell-Jones...