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...replaced. Eighteen ten-ton blocks of marble were quarried before Miss Frick found one with just the color she wanted for a fountain in the central court. Mrs. Frick was wont to take her ease in a boudoir on the second floor whose panels had once been painted by Boucher for Mme de Pompadour. This had to be dismantled and set up again in what was once the Frick pantry. Engineers were called in to design special glareless lights for each picture. Then finally the ''reasonable regulations" were drawn...
...Metropolitan show possible. Such private collectors as the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Baches also contributed. Thirty million dollars was a conservative estimate of the show's total value. Gaping gallery-goers liked best three lush canvases by the father of French postcards, sensuous Francois Boucher (1703-70). Serious painters were most excited by the opportunity to see six first-rate canvases by Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), an artist who antedated the Impressionists by almost a century in their passion for the effects of light and air on color. Other important numbers...
Ohio State scored two touchdowns in the first half: one when Antenucci intercepted a pass and threw a lateral to Boucher who ran 70 yd. down the sideline; another when Williams squirmed through a gap between end and tackle...
...future editions of his book, Francisco de Goya. Within a month it was sold to Mrs. William R. Timken, sister-in-law of Henry Holiday Timken, maker of Timken Roller Bearings (TIME, Aug. 19). Well known only to dealers is Mrs. Timken's collection which includes a Boucher, a Fragonard, a Gainsborough and a brace each of Greuzes. Rembrandts and Van Dycks. The lady with the parrot is Mrs. Timken's only Goya...
Distinctly unprofessorial in appearance, slim, wiry Dean Boucher is given to sport clothes, neither looks nor acts his 49 years. Students' chief criticism of him is that he slaps too many backs...