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The three years of lycée are devoted to preparing for the baccalaureate exam, the nationwide test that determines at what level a student can enter the university. There is a bac given for each lycée track. The typical exam schedule involves ten hours of tests over...
A Jew, Solti fled to Switzerland in 1939 and lived out the war there, boning up on his piano, winning first prize in the Concours International at Geneva, and developing a reputation as both soloist and chamber-music player. In 1945, then 33, desperately in search of an opportunity to...
-Considered hors concours are Leigh and Mary Block, whose gilt-edged collection, valued at $10 million, focuses conservatively on impressionists and postimpressionists. It is currently touring U.S. museums.
Van Gogh would have missed out on a rating of the top ten of his time (at the time of his death he was virtually unknown), but cultural polls have their points. Every five years, France's Connaissance des Arts polls connoisseurs with the question, "Who are the ten...
All at Sea. The Dunn Foundation provided six equal prizes of $5,000 each. A few artists, such as Picasso and De Kooning, were by their own request hors concours. After that, the judges-British Art Expert Douglas Cooper, Andrew Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, and Peter...