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...them was of a date far later than the parchments themselves. Wanting to be sure, Bautier enlisted the aid of police, archivists and other scholars, and set out in search of further knowledge of Genealogist Courtois. Last week, in the silent, august chamber of L'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Scholar Bautier announced his findings: Henri Courtois, a onetime notary's clerk and one of the shadiest characters of the 19th century, had done a land-office business in the faking of ancient documents,*exacting a fee of 40,000 gold francs ($10,000) apiece...
...wrote Navy Secretary Charles Thomas last week in drastically reducing the rigorous court-martial sentence of Marine Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon, who led six marine recruits to their death on a disciplinary march last spring (TIME, April 23 et seq.). Thomas cut the sentence from nine months' hard labor to three months (leaving McKeon to complete four more weeks), canceled a $270 fine and a bad-conduct discharge, confirmed the reduction in grade to private...
...with Freedom. In the politics-ridden art world of Mexico, Tamayo's latest success inevitably brought a renewed plea that he lead a new Mexican art movement against the prevailing Communist and leftist painters-Siqueiros, Rivera, et al. But Rufino Tamayo does not want to create a new kind of orthodoxy. He is convinced that the leftists, by pretending "that Mexican painting must follow one specific, rigid line, have put Mexican art back many years." Of the eager young artists who want to follow him, he says: "They are not dogmatic. That's the reason I love them...
Abroad, the parade back to lithography was started by Picasso himself, who in 1945 became fascinated with the out-of-mode art form, was soon joined by a host of modern masters-Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Joan Miro et al. In the U.S. lithography, which was revived as an art form under the WPA, also began its boom soon after World War II. Today in Manhattan The Contemporaries Graphic Art Center has in constant use most of the 90-odd lithographic stones it rounded up from old commercial houses Which since the turn of the century have shifted to zinc...
...lithography boom is proving profitable to artists and art lovers alike. A one-edition gouache or oil by France's most popular younger painter, 28-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952 et seq.), costs up to $3,500. One print from his 75-edition Still Life with White Fruit Dish costs only $80, but sale of the whole edition would mount up to $6,000. Top Italian Painter Afro, 44, winner of Italy's first prize for painting in this year's Venice Biennale, gets $700 for a work the size of his abstract lithograph...