Sentence examples for choice paintings from inspiring English sources
Thousands of choice paintings were shipped to grace the estate of Hermann Göring, Hitler's deputy, who oversaw much of the stealing.
Ten years later came another big break: the establishment of a fund by Frank C. Sumner, a Hartford banker, for the acquisition of "choice paintings".
Choice paintings, drawings, miniatures on ivory, and lithographs represent the final — though, in respect to dire genius, scarcely declining — years of the last Old Master and first modern artist, who died in 1828 at the age of eighty-two.
The suit says that Mr. Zwirner promised to help get Mr. Robins off the blacklist and sell him choice paintings from "Against the Wall," the current show of Ms. Dumas's work at Zwirner, but that this did not happen.
The suit, which claims $3 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages from the gallery, also claims that Mr. Zwirner promised to help get Mr. Robins off the blacklist and sell him choice paintings from "Against the Wall," the current show of Ms. Dumas's work at Zwirner (which is now her gallery), but that this did not happen.
As a result, the choice of paintings, drawings and sculptures were weak and collectors knew it.
Your choice of paintings, objects and interior decoration told people who you were and indeed who you were not.
Now, a two-year refurbishment has transformed a dowdy labyrinth with state-of-the-art lighting, subtle wall colouring and a clever choice of paintings.
Peter Selz, now director of the Univ. of California's Art Museum in Berkeley, made the initial choice of paintings & sculptures & submitted them to Mrs. Ganz last August.
Yet when presented with a choice of paintings to borrow from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif., as part of an exchange program, curators chose a van Gogh portrait that will hang in its Oval Room for about three months.
