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...burgeoning myth. Morley's reputation as the last wild man of the art world grows and grows. Stories about him proliferate and are often true: a jail sentence in Wormwood Scrubs as a young man, the rages in the broken-up studio, the destruction of work. One German collector gave Morley $40,000 for a painting and was nonplused to see the artist slash his canvas to ribbons before handing the check back. Such gestures establish a profile. But it is the work that matters...
...much their pesos could buy until Jan. 19. That is when television newscasts showed authorities conducting a raid of two palatial homes owned by former Mexico City Police Chief Arturo Durazo Moreno. Besides rooms with views, Durazo's mountain retreat included stables, 17 Thoroughbreds, imported furnishings, 19 collector's cars, a cache of weapons and a discothèque equipped with the most advanced sound-and-light equipment inspired by New York's Studio 54. Durazo's second estate, in the Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo, dubbed "the Parthenon," features decorative fountains, statues and marble...
...volume collection was Sir Philip Sydney's 1613 work. "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" which was presented to the countess by the author himself. Widener considered this book to be one of the finest example of Elizabethan leather work in the world. A life-long collector, Widener died on the Titanic in 1912, returning from a book buying mission in London. Fortunately, all of the rare books purchased by Widener in England were shipped back to the U.S. separately, except for one volume which went down with the Titanic, a second edition of Sir Francis Bacon's "Essays...
...pleasant Fume Blanc, at $6.50 (down from $8.50). The competition has also been fierce among domestic jug wines produced by such firms as Gallo, Almaden, Inglenook and Paul Masson, some of which have cut as much as $2 from the cost of their three-liter bottles. The serious wine collector can find remarkable bargains among prestigious Bordeaux and Burgundies, as well as vintages from lesser-known petits chateaux that have never exported before. In fact, the top vintages, such as a 1978 Chateau Petrus and a 1975 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, have resisted price-cutting. Even these are good buys...
Women artists through the '40s and into the '50s in New York City were the victims of a sort of cultural apartheid, and the ruling assumptions about the inherent weakness, derivativeness and silly femininity of women painters were almost unbelievably phallocentric. Thus Peggy Guggenheim, the first major collector of Pollock's work, seems to have been so jealous of Krasner's place in his life that she refused to acknowledge her as an artist. And a poll in the Cedar Bar or any other watering place of the New York avant-garde would simply have echoed...