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...patrons evidently agreed. By the time the show closed, Cubist Ghika had sold 17 of his 38 (five are loans) pictures, one for a thumping ?1,000 ($2,800). Said London's Telegraph: "No living British artist commands such a price in our art galleries today, except possibly Augustus John...
...room, the wooden kitchen table was littered with well-used sculptor's tools, and finished and unfinished busts rested on pedestals or were swaddled in damp cloth. But for all the strange clutter, it was the studio of Britain's dean of portraitists: bearded crusty old Augustus John, still vigorous and sharp-eyed at 74. In the six months, John has picked up the sculptor's knife and found a new enthusiasm for life. It's my second breath," he says, and adds, "or my second childhood...
...years ago. A swarthy, husky type with hot brown eyes and a mane of jet-black hair, she lives in a littered London flat, dresses like a dock-walloper and, while she works, sings arias from her favorite operas between puffs on a cigar. For an old Bohemian like Augustus John, Fiore was just what the doctor ordered...
...Touch of God. John hopes to have enough finished works by next fall for a London show, but so far only a few friends have seen his sculptures. Fiore, for one thinks they are magnificent. "Augustus is the only one carrying on the great tradition. Everything is done by inspiration. There is a time when God touched...
...Augustus John himself says only that sculpture "thrills me-a new material a new medium, a new problem." He has no idea what category his style falls into or what it will be a year from now. But he is sure of one thing: it won't be abstract or full of holes. "I don't want to see through a figure. Leave that to Henry Moore. Of course," he adds with a twinkle "it does save a lot of clay...