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                                              AFA - 3

three.  Purpose:  to explore political, social, economic backgrounds and relate them to the art of the time.  Dio-cletian's  day chosen because of striking resemblances to our own:  high taxes, persecution, traffic crush at thea-ters, Quo Vadis packing them in, and the end of everything hovering on the frontiers.

The N.Y. Committee for UNESCO January Conference is hard at work.  Theodore Brenson and Herbert Hatter prepared booklet "The Artist"; are looking for an angel.  If same is found, booklet will appear at Conference.

An AMATEUR beat the professionals to the draw this week as a little woman who is at best a desultory collector came away from an auction with a good Cezanne at a very low fig-ure.  Reason, the picture was in such good odd company regulars stayed away.  A recognized authority on the Master later congratulated the buyer.  It's episodes like this that in-furiates the dealers but keep the fires burning in the breasts of collectors.

The sound of the hammer could still be heard in distant gal-leries as the Museum of Modern Art opened it MATISSE exhibition with a dazzling double Vernissage.  Because of the dock strike, the seventy paintings from France plied their dreary way back and forth across the Atlantic in the hold of the 'Ile de France' as union bosses haggled and officials fretted.  24 hours before opening time, the pictures were released.  The entire staff of the Museum charged into ac-tion to get the show off the road and onto the walls.  In the late afternoon came the chic elite of the art world to shake the hands of His Excellency the French Ambassador and Mme. Bonnet, and the representatives of the American and French diplomatic corps.  It was all very gala, with speeches, and the women dressed in their five-seven-best.  In the eve-ning came the dealers, the artists, and the general member-ship - all of them.  A stampede rare even for New York.

Metropolitan Museum Trustees again offered $4,000 FELLOWSHIPS to 3 graduate students; apply to Dean of Education not later than February 15, 1952.

Things To Watch For

The Cezanne Exhibition sponsored jointly by Metropolitan Mu-seum and the Chicago Art Institute.

NEW SERVICE by Sculptors' Guild Incorporated, 96 Fifth Ave-nue.  Photos, models, small sculpture for churches, schools, homes, offices, on file.  Consultant to work with client on problem of integrating sculpture into building plans.

Claude Vernard's Spring Exhibition at Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas; first showing the U.S. of the work of this tal-ented young Frenchman.