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...place was a craft he had learned at the Renault plant during World War I: acetylene torch welding. His reconciliation with Picasso followed, and they worked together on some sculptures. Picasso's limitless horizon of idea and sense of imagery liberated Gonzalez from his lingering post-impressionist style; Gonzalez took to the air and escaped from the solid, heavy past of sculpture...
Alarmed by the mounting wave of art thefts on both sides of the Atlantic, Novelist Somerset Maugham, 87, moved his collection of 46 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings out of his Riviera villa and into a Marseilles bank vault for the duration of a scheduled visit to Lon . Sighed Maugham's Man Friday, Secretary Alan Searle: "Art has become more of an anxiety than a pleasure...
Vincent Van Gogh, the nephew of the French post-Impressionist artist, will speak at 4 p.m. today in the Fogg Museum Small Lecture Room. A consultant engineer as well as an expert on the elder Van Gogh's art, Van Gogh will discuss how creativity arises, with specific reference to the career of his uncle...
Most conspicuous sign of the times last week was an auction at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. In just one hour. 29 middling-good impressionist and post-impressionist pictures were sold for a whopping $1,528,500. The auction was so crowded that 5,000 people were turned away, and half of the 2.000 ticket holders were forced to watch the bidding on closed-circuit television. The lot had been collected in a hurry over the past few years by Hotelman Arnold Kirkeby (Hampshire House, Beverly Wilshire. Saranac Inn, El Panama). He was selling them off faster...
...biggest art deals of its kind in the past quarter-century, the Edward G. and Gladys Lloyd Robinson Collection, one of the finest private ingatherings in America, was sold this week for $3,250,000. Made up mostly of French impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, the collection was doomed when the Robinsons were divorced last August and the California courts directed that their communal property be equally divided. But Movie Tough-Guy Robinson, unable to part with all his pictures ("I would like to keep them all"), held on to 14 of them. The balance of the collection-58 paintings...