Word: argyrol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down and out in Paris, Lipchitz worked hard at producing the sculptures that are now his most widely esteemed work. Salvation came one day when the rent was nine months' overdue. Merion, Pa. Modern Art Collector Dr. Albert Barnes (inventor of Argyrol) arrived at Lipchitz' studio, bought eight stone carvings, and commissioned five more...
...potshots at these methods, and in the last act finally mixes the methods with a lively madness of its own. Helped by Percy Waram's deft performance, the play also gets some fun out of the crotchety Edgerton-for whom, plainly, Philadelphia's late great Collector Albert (Argyrol) Barnes was the inspiration...
Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes, trigger-tempered art collector and self-made millionaire (Argyrol), who left the Barnes Foundation an art collection estimated at upwards of $20 million, also left a personal estate worth more than $2,000,000, according to an inventory filed last week...
...Barnes was a millionaire, thanks to his development of a bland antiseptic which he named Argyrol. Albert Barnes thereupon went looking for something else worth fighting...
Died. Dr. Albert C. Barnes, 78, discoverer of Argyrol, irascible collector of modern art; after a motor accident; in Phoenixville...