Each painting and sculpture seemed to have waited for my arrival, dressed in their finest draperies and gilded frames, like flags in an endless procession of gladness.
In the latter, the figures are almost freestanding, and in their fine, rhythmic draperies and naturalistic movement they approach the new Gothic style.
Sold as well was Mr. Steinberg's palatial Park Avenue apartment, thought to be the largest in Manhattan, as well as its contents, including many of the fine paintings and draperies that once hung on its walls.
These images demonstrate that depending on the analysed spot, the red pigment of drapery has various colour tones: opaque red brown pigment with fine particles can be seen in Fig. 3a, b; the same pigment with admixtures of yellow, shiny, angular crystals in Fig. 3b; transition of red to white in Fig. 3c highlighting the illuminated drapery folds.
There are also wonderful wall paintings in the Cluniac chapel at Berzé-la-Ville, where the various compositions are filled with energy and colour, and a tumult of fine sweeping folds and flickering highlights plays over the surface of the drapery.
The attractive salon, lit by a fine painting of giant sunflowers and a big window, has a piano and rather theatrical wall drapery; the breakfast room is wonderfully medieval with its stone vault, ancient well and tapestried chairs - modernity appearing in the form of designer reeds and a generous breakfast.
Airy and genteel, it's a fine vintage setting with dark wainscotting, tiled walls, sculptured beams and enormous windows with great swags of drapery.
It had draperies and benches.
Family photographs are silk-screened on draperies.
Pink linens, chintz draperies and orchids abound.
Many of these draperies are still there.
