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Further sales gave Gibson a chance to study first at the New York Art Student's League, later in Paris. There he acquired the technique he still has, the loose draughtsmanship of the late great Anders Zorn. While in Munich, just before the Spanish-American War, Artist Gibson received a commission for some weekly pictures. A bald nervous little German came around looking for a job. From that followed a long series remembered by all Gibsonians as "The Education of Mr. Pipp...
...marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery. Anders Zorn's The Toast, of which exist only 75 impressions, was the most expensive etching...
...Dear Sister . . ." wrote one Frieda Zorn of Berlin to her sister in New York. Her letter, opened by Nazi censors, never reached "dear sister." Last week a Nazi court sentenced her to 15 months in jail for writing "false reports...
Included in an auction sale in Manhattan was a portrait done in 1899 by the late Swedish Anders Zorn of the late Henry Clay Pierce, St. Louis oilman, whose Brule, Wis. estate was Calvin Coolidge's summer home in 1928. Angered because he thought the portrait made him look ungainly, Oilman Pierce demanded numerous alterations, finally refused to accept or pay for the picture. Artist Zorn sued, collected $13,200. On the auction block, the portrait fetched...
Among the most important works which have been offered for the exhibition are a water-color by Rivera, a painting by Matisse, a lithograph by Daumier, a print by Cruikshank, some etchings by Zorn and Heintzelman, a Dutch map of England printed in France in 1573, and a print of the first balloon flight in 1788. There will also be etchings by Rembrandt, Durer, and Van Leyden...