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...offered Sir Joseph Duveen $250,000 for a picture, The Laughing Mandolin Player, by Franz Hals, 17th Century Dutch painter. The deal was closed. It was generally considered the most important art transaction since Henry E. Huntington of California bought from the same dealer Gainsborough's Blue Boy, or since John D. Rockefeller, Jr., bought for $1,100,000 the Verteuil tapestries (TIME, March...
...Vinci famous: laughter on canvas has contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...
...know of no other American poet who has succeeded so subtly in combining real sentiment with the vernacular. His poems in slang have been at once beautiful, tender, well written. He has intuitive knowledge of the boy and girl of shop and street, their trials, their loves. If his play possesses the same quality of joy and sorrow that is shown in his poetry, it should run forever, and even if he forgets the popular accents of New York on the sands of Palm Beach, he cannot lose there his wistful, shy boys and girls who drift through his pages...
...offered Sir Joseph Duveen $250,000 for a picture, The Laughing Mandolin Player, by Franz Hals, 17th Century Dutch painter. The deal was closed. It was generally considered the most important art transaction since Henry E. Huntington of California bought from the same dealer Gainsborough's Blue Boy, or since John D. Rockefeller, Jr., bought for $1,100,000 the Verteuil tapestries (TIME, March...
...Vinci famous: laughter on canvas has contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...