DOI Heft:
Nr. 333 (February 1925)
DOI Artikel:Eglington, Guy: Art and other things
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0159
mceRnACionAL
BY ARNOLD FRIEDMAN
"MOTHER AND CHILD
leave to call it, from the town where we f ound it last month when J suggested that the new Ameri-
this summer. When I first saw it hanging in the can Wing at the Metropolitan might be enlivened
back room of an antique shop, I thought certainly by the addition of a little naivete. A fine painted-
it must be by the same artist as painted the glass mirror and one or two small curtain por-
_ r . , , .t _ cnmP Dutch feeling, traits would lighten up a bedroom marvelously.
Freake portraits. It had the same uuxen uu g, & t- _ j
,. t m„ ^0Kr-ite cool color. As tor the Dover Babv, it should certamlv be
the same solidity, the same delicate cooi euiox _ j, j
Comparing it with the photograph of the Freake, g.ven a place of honor on the thxrd floor. But
I see that I was mistaken, but it is sufficiently there I take it back. The Dover Baby IS
j „ ;+■ fnirlv earlv (the much too alive to be condemned, so young, to a
close to warrant one dating it fairly eany iu c , j s,
portrait of Madam and Baby Freake is dated museum Even in Mr de Forests new wing he
1674). Possibly the shape of the bottle would to wouldn t, I fear, be entirely happy.
. J i He would be happier, 1 think, with Arnold
an antiquary suggest a date. Friedman's " Mother and Child," of which I wrote
. • 0f this type, as also to certain during the summer. After a year I still think this
is o pain mg » referred one of the greatest achievements of modern art.
landscapes, though these are rarei, tnax
February 1925 /our nineteen
BY ARNOLD FRIEDMAN
"MOTHER AND CHILD
leave to call it, from the town where we f ound it last month when J suggested that the new Ameri-
this summer. When I first saw it hanging in the can Wing at the Metropolitan might be enlivened
back room of an antique shop, I thought certainly by the addition of a little naivete. A fine painted-
it must be by the same artist as painted the glass mirror and one or two small curtain por-
_ r . , , .t _ cnmP Dutch feeling, traits would lighten up a bedroom marvelously.
Freake portraits. It had the same uuxen uu g, & t- _ j
,. t m„ ^0Kr-ite cool color. As tor the Dover Babv, it should certamlv be
the same solidity, the same delicate cooi euiox _ j, j
Comparing it with the photograph of the Freake, g.ven a place of honor on the thxrd floor. But
I see that I was mistaken, but it is sufficiently there I take it back. The Dover Baby IS
j „ ;+■ fnirlv earlv (the much too alive to be condemned, so young, to a
close to warrant one dating it fairly eany iu c , j s,
portrait of Madam and Baby Freake is dated museum Even in Mr de Forests new wing he
1674). Possibly the shape of the bottle would to wouldn t, I fear, be entirely happy.
. J i He would be happier, 1 think, with Arnold
an antiquary suggest a date. Friedman's " Mother and Child," of which I wrote
. • 0f this type, as also to certain during the summer. After a year I still think this
is o pain mg » referred one of the greatest achievements of modern art.
landscapes, though these are rarei, tnax
February 1925 /our nineteen