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...Russians are able to show their people how diligently they are seeking peace). At one party at the pagoda-like French embassy, Malenkov, Mikoyan and Molotov knocked back repartee with Mollet and Pineau. Having been asked by Malenkov to toast collective leadership, Mollet invited his guests to try the buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer to the canapés, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Marshal Zhukov chatted with U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen. Khrushchev ribbed Zhukov for helping himself "as though you haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Under the Skin | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...important new factor today is the speculator willing to take a flyer on the works of a young unknown. Tempted by such examples as Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), whose canvases in eight years have jumped in average price from $50 to more than $1,000, dealers, brokers and middlemen are buying paintings, hoping for a "beau coup" (lucky strike). Occasionally art dealers buy up an artist's whole studio full of works, salt them away until the artist's work brings a premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Life in Paris | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

That evening there will be a buffet supper in the Lowell Courtyard, followed by the Band and Glee Club Concert at the Tercentenary Theatre in the Yard. An informal dance until 2 a.m. in the Lowell Courtyard will close the day's events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '56 Week Events Include Orations, Midnight Dances | 5/9/1956 | See Source »

...latest thing among younger British painters is a violent swing back to realism. Like their young contemporary, French Prodigy Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), they are concerned with the drab reality of everyday life. Their favorite subjects are pots and pans, pubs, dingy outdoor scenes, and almost anything handy piled on top of the kitchen table. Hence their collective title: "the Kitchen Sink School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kitchen Sink School | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Jaguar & Monkey. The fact seems to be that Buffet found his style early and stuck with it. Good fortune, in return, stayed with Buffet. His canvases have soared from $50 to a top $10,000 for the largest oils, prices exceeded today only by such giants as Picasso, Braque and Rouault. He gets what he wants, whatever the cost. "You must feed your best horse plenty of oats if you want him to run fast," explained Gallery Owner Emanuel David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Artist Must Eat | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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