Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Ben Marshall, famed 18th-Century English sporting artist: "I can sell a man a print of his horse for 50 guineas, but a print of his wife brings only 5." With this sage precept in mind, a group of Manhattan socialites set out to organize an exhibition for the benefit of civilian relief in France. Result: a sprightly show that opened on Manhattan's 57th Street last week-"The Horse...
Members of the horsy set could nicker approbation of many a hunting and racing scene. But "The Horse in Art's" 1,000-odd items also went further afield, from archaic Greek vases to a surrealist canvas of a horse's head, surrounded by lilies and starfish. Best part of the show was its sculpture, which ranged from prancing pottery chargers of the Chinese T'ang Dynasty through the Renaissance bronzes of Giovanni da Bologna to contemporary U. S. Ceramist Waylande de Santis Gregory...
...modern French painting since dealers' prices in this field skyrocketed in the '203, it gave ever-suspicious private buyers a line on whether prices had been puffed up unduly. With collectors making most of the high bids, dealers were vindicated. Chunky, art-loving Walter P. Chrysler Jr. set a new U. S. auction record for Cézanne by bidding $27,500 for a sombre portrait of Mme Cézanne. An anonymous collector paid $19,000 for van Gogh's high-keyed portrait of Mile Ravoux, smeared on the canvas with a palette knife...
...sales rose from $10,229,000 in 1934 to an estimated $20,000,000 this year, its net income from a 1935 deficit of $275,000 to an anticipated 1939 profit of $1,000,000. Still, minority stockholders were not satisfied. Once they set up a fuss at their annual meeting at the firm's Chicopee Falls, Mass, plant over the $12,000 annual fee directors had voted their chairman. Next year the directors retaliated by holding the stockholders' meeting in Delaware. Last week, however, it looked as if the controversy would soon be ended...
...master salesman, and Harry H. Franks, master mechanic. Their Franks Manufacturing Co. has sold 35 truck-mounted rigs to date at $50,000 apiece. The rig eliminated the cost ($650-$2,000) of putting up a drilling derrick, paid for itself by drilling 18 wells a year. It also set blond Larry O'Donnell, Shell Oil Co.'s chief mechanical engineer in the Texas-Gulf area, to thinking...