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...Fillies tend to be fractious, and Allez France, 4, has a habit or two that unnerves her owner, Art Dealer Daniel Wildenstein. One of them is the heart-stopping way she runs a race, loafing along until the head of the stretch, then roaring past the field in a powerful thrust. Last week American-bred Allez France beat the best thoroughbreds Europe had to offer in the 1%-mile Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, winning $296,500 and becoming the only other filly besides Dahlia ever to earn $1 million. Back at the stable, keeping the champ happy...
...Odalisque go to France not for "reattribution" but for sale? The Met's reply is that Daniel Wildenstein's opinion was needed, that the painting had to be compared with other Ingres in the Louvre and checked against Ingres documents he had. But the Met rejected Wildenstein's conclusion (he thought the painting genuine), and it seems easier to copy some documents and mail them to New York than to lug a large and valuable painting across the Atlantic. If the Odalisque went to Paris only for study, why conceal its whereabouts from other scholars...
Thus it was with Velásquez's portrait of his mulatto assistant, Juan de Pareja, which brought $5,544,000 at Christie's last November-the highest price ever paid for a work of art at public auction. The winning bid belonged to Wildenstein & Co., and young Alec Wildenstein explained at the time, with a straight face, that the family gallery had bought it because his great-grandfather had been in love with it and left instructions to snap it up if it ever came on the market. But last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced...
...five and a half months that the picture has been out of sight, hidden away in a back room of Wildenstein's Manhattan gallery, the Met's chief restorer, Hubert von Sonnenburg, has wrought some minor miracles. He cleaned off the aging varnish, discovering a new richness of skin tones, transforming Juan's lace collar to a blazing white, and revealing the background as a rich orchestration of grays rather than the rather dim greenish cast it had had. More important, he found that a 1½ in. margin...
...Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, and the record for a private sale, an estimated $5,000,000 that was paid in 1967 for Leonardo's Ginevra dei Bend, by Washington's National Gallery of Art. The buyer of the Velásquez, Alec Wildenstein, 30, vice president of the New York firm of Wildenstein, firmly denied that he was acting on behalf of any art collector. Said he: "To buy this painting at that price is no risk. This is really cheap." Still, the expansive price staggered most art experts. "I'm stunned...