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...million, Norton Simon, 57, Southern California entrepreneur and art collector (TIME, April 24), bought the gallery's elegant Manhattan mansion and everything in it. The wares include 146 paintings dating from the early Renaissance through the 18th century. There are tapestries ranging from the French Gothic to Francois Boucher's rose damask Gobelins commissioned by Louis XVI, an abundance of porcelains, sculpture, antique furniture, and a rare 4,000-book art library. None of the treasures will go under the hammer or into Norton Simon's private collection. Instead, Simon's separate nonprofit educational foundation plans...
...lovers may appreciate the perky papillon, painted by Fragonard, Boucher, Velasquez and Titian. Its name derives from its butterfly-like ears. Madame de Pompadour always carried one, Marie Antoinette took hers along to prison, and Edith Wharton brought papillons to the U.S., where currently there are 158 registered...
...seven years ago, Guy became the first head of a Rothschild house ever to marry a Christian, had to resign the presidency of France's Jewish Community in the ensuing scandale.) The walls of their house are lined with paintings by Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Ingres and Boucher, some displayed in a strawberry-red salon that gives a visitor the impression of being inside a magnum of Chateau Lafite...
...frame for more than a decade. Up until the Pueblo go, Bynum had piled up $12,409 in steer-wrestling competition in 1963. With almost three months left before the National Finals Rodeo in Los Angeles, Bynum is in a tight race with Rival C. R. Boucher; yet no one who knows Big Jim would bet against a fourth championship...
...inlay of metal and tortoise shell in ebony had belonged to Queen Victoria. Fribourg's bed was one that Napoleon had had made for himself and Marie Louise; it bears the date of their wedding. Fribourg owned 18th century Gobelin tapestries and Sèvres china designed by Boucher; he had 70 rare gold boxes that were once used for snuff or jewelry, of which the best examples could today fetch $20,000 apiece. When Fribourg entertained, he and his guests enjoyed not only the meal but also the museum-quality sets of china it was served...