Word: brummer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the St. Louis City Art Museum announced with pride that it had acquired an Egyptian bronze statue of a cat for $14,400 from Manhattan Art Dealer Joseph Brummer. Same day, St. Louis newspapers carried a pathetic story about the eviction of a family of eight for failure to pay $15 a month rent. The conjunction of these news items proved too much for the editorial sense of the St. Louis Star-Times, which published an open letter to the cat informing it that its "visit" was ill-timed. Wrote the Star-Times...
...Also worthy of any gallery-goer's attention was a Derain show at the Brummer Gallery, a Reginald Marsh exhibition at the Rehn Galleries. Bushy-lipped walter Pach laid himself open to the annual attack of fellow art critics by showing his most recent water colors at the Kleemann Galleries. Durand-Ruel went down to their cellars and produced about a half million dollars worth of Renoirs, and at the Gallery of American Indian Art, a show of water colors went on view by the darling of Santa Fe's art colony, the plump and talented Pueblo squaw...
Galleryman Joseph Brummer is only obliquely a promoter of modern art. His business is purveying, to the very rich, old masters, antique statuary, tapestries and furniture. But hoarse-voiced M. Brummer is also a sculptor. He was once a pupil of the late great Auguste Rodin. He knew Henry Rousseau, he lent money to hollow-eyed Modigliani. At the top of his furniture shop is a chaste, grey-hung room where each year he holds four or five carefully chosen exhibitions of modern painters little known to the U. S. public...
Success of his last season was precise, witty Pierre Roy, at that time almost unknown in the U. S., now generally recognized as one of the most important French painters (TIME, Dec. 1). For the past year M. Brummer has been looking for another to launch...
...swept overboard, had one foot seriously injured. He spent weeks on the little known island of Reunion in the South Indian Ocean and explored the islands off Madagascar in a pirogue. Last May he was back in Paris and held his first important one-man show. Critics, especially M. Brummer, enthused...