Arts: More Sargents

The sale of pictures by the late John Singer Sargent at Christie's Galleries, London (TIME, Aug. 3), continued.

"Blink," went the hammer of the auctioneer. People thought distantly of Velazquez, more immediately of Mr. Sargent, and concentrated what was left of their attention upon a certain Dutchman who was present—one Vanderneut.

Velazquez (1599-1660) because, long ago, he conceived that the plump oval face of a little Spanish prince with beady eyes would almost achieve piquancy if tilted beneath a hat like a black velvet sofa pillow—that the princeling's rotund body, swathed in...

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