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...time when any crocodile can become a "major" collector by scrawling a digit and six zeroes on a check for a B+ Van Gogh, it is worth recalling what Albert and his wife Marie Christine achieved. Until they began collecting in 1773, under the tutelage of the Austrian ambassador to Venice, drawings and prints had been regarded mainly as curiosities or reference objects and were seldom collected in a systematic way. Albert was the first to focus methodically on drawings as an index to the development of artists, while dividing his collection chronologically and by schools; though not a writer...
Great collections feed on disasters that shake leaves from other trees: wars, revolutions, depressions, bankruptcies. Albert's time was full of them, and he missed no chances. When the Austrian Prince de Ligne, who had the most renowned group of French drawings in Europe, was killed in the war against France, Albert bought the cream of his collection; he acquired another unrivaled group of drawings from Count Moriz von Fries when the count's bank failed in 1819; for 30 years he had agents scouring estates from Rome to London. In 20 years, 1792-1811, he spent more than...
DIED. Rudi Gernreich, 62, innovative Austrian-born fashion designer whose attempts to free women's clothing from rigid structure and the tyranny of French couture resulted in youthful, boldly colored, free-flowing styles such as tank dresses, miniskirts, the tank-top bathing suit, the see-through blouse and--most controversial--the topless bathing suit; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. The 1964 strapped, topless suit sold 3,000 copies, outraged the Kremlin and the Vatican and afterward overshadowed the reputation he deserved for more influential work...
Freshman Cyndy Austrian and Captain Debbie Kaufman went on to notch wins at numbers five and six, clinching the win for the Crimson before the doubles began...
...much of a problem from here on in," Kathy Vignia said and Austrian went so far as to predict another 9-0 victory...