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Promising Painter...
Last September, 13 days after she became the sixth wife of Singer Sewing Machine Scion Alfred Corning Clark, Alicja Kopczynska Purdom, 32, became his widow. Last week came news that the Polish-born playgirl painter, whose previous marriage to Cinemactor Edmund Purdom was highlighted by clamorous clashes on two continents, had her future sewed up. Ten weeks before he died in his sleep at the family barony of Cooperstown, N.Y., Clark redrew his will to leave to Alicja the bulk of his $10 million estate...
...Disappointing Van Dyck. At 8 p.m., Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, his English as Tammany and his French as fractured as ever, took his place behind his rostrum, admitting that he had seldom been more nervous. As cameras flashed, the sale began with a portrait by the 16th century Dutch painter Jan Mostaert. A portrait by Van Dyck went for a disappointing $27,000, which was $53,000 below the Parke-Bernet estimate. On the other hand, a splendid Princess Sibylle of Cleves, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, was bought by Thomas Agnew & Sons of London for $105,000, about twice...
...York Dealer Martha Jackson pays Sculptress Louise Nevelson and Spanish Painter Antonio Tapies $20,000 a year in return for U.S. representation of their work. She also has an arrangement with three other galleries in Europe on behalf of a European abstractionist. Each dealer pays him $16,000 for the privilege of maintaining a monopoly on him. His minimum guarantee from the deal: $64,000 a year...
...Great Forgery, by Edith Simon. The hero of this ironical novel, a scruffy old painter who forges a Holbein to show the art experts up as Philistines, is a fine, randy character who bears a strong resemblance to Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson...