Art: Three-Month Utrillo

Owl-eyed Alexander Woollcott entertained his public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr—rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added:

". . . This has been done, and the Utrillo is mine—until December. I think I look at it oftener,...

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