Evening star., 1923-07-22
Worlds Greatest Art Duel to Be
Staged in Paris During September
1t will be fought the famous Salon Cre the celebrities ad
mitedThe "Bele of Kansas "BI
FiWhich the by LeonadoIhe

moment should he take back his cruel
words
CIR JOSEPH is a proud man as well
~ as giant figure. He stood pat.
row he finally calls round him other
giants. They will be seen in Septem-
ber by such celebrities as are ad-
mitted to the duel of the two Bellies
Ferronnicre in the Salon Carre,
closed to the public
There will come to prophesy against
the Kansas city picture Bernhard
Berenson of Harvard University and
Florence. Italy, recognized as one of
the foremost Leonardo experts living.
There will come TO back him up
Sfgnor Lucchesi of Rome Seymour
de Ricci of Paris. Prof. Wilhelm Won
Bade, curator Of the Berlin Museum:
DR.. de Groot of Amsterdam and other
Leonardo specialists of all Europe
And a celebrity of the New York
lar, Henry q. Sherman. will conduct
direct examination of these giants
of art criticism-all to slam. the
choice of Kansas City's intuition
The little married couple would,
indeed. look timid and forlorn as
champions of their Leonardo had
there not risen up beside them one
more giant figure-Hyacinthe Ring
rose, London barrister and New York
lawyer. known from San Francisco
TO st. Louis and from st. Louis to
Philadelphia, and who has won the.
admnatlon even of his adversaries
by making a ringing case for Kansas
City
Sir Joseph must be put down as
good sport.
When | went to the palatial Paris
establishment of Duveen brothers. in
the Place Vendume. 10 ask Tor thai
unique. unpublished thing-Sir Jo-
seph's photograph. fof publication
their Mr. t'owles intrusted it to me
without request, without word or
hint that l say this or that, accom-
panying it,
They have their giants But even
giants. of art criticism may find ii
an ungrateful role when standing
the Mona Lisa" the "St. John the
baptist and the Louvre's Virgin of
the Rocks admitted Leonardos-
and judging, face to face beside
htem. the Kansas City portrait and
NO. 1900 of the catalogue. The
rromptings of the inner conscious
! ness of the true connoisseur-''my
feeling" my conviction'-risk re-
naming the imponderabIes that side
step plain minds in he presence of
things you can put your finger on.
X X
BECAUSE, observe. unlike Sir
- Charles Holmes, curator of the
National Gallery. London: Can't
Langdon Douglas, director of the
National Gallery of ireland, and Sir
Herbert Cook and Maurice Brock
Well curators of the Doughty House
Gallehy, Richmond, England, whose
expert testimony based itself on
photographs to knock the Kansas
City Leonardo, the new giants will
be face to face with the actual
paintings.
And here waits for them a verita-
BILE sensation of things tangible-of
thumb prints Of the long departed,
and of walnut oil that no man used
since close to the year 1883,
The feature writer must go look
ing for his high lights. When he
finds them SO that his tale comes TO
be a prophecy and news scoop. he is
lucky. l went asking for them. i'm
portuning, Here are high lights
from Kansas City and New York
that will illuminate Paris.
According to his COtemporaries,
Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed