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...room Tudor mansion and all the fixings (asking price: $150,000) to a chain-store owner. Some of the fixings : a sun room overlooking Long Island Sound, ten-car garage, six-room gatehouse, terraced gardens, tennis court, oval swimming pool, five horse stalls (without horses) and a root cellar...
Trapping the Terrible. Rouault's start was as violent as much of his painting has been; he was born in a cellar during the bombardment of Paris in the 1871 insurrection of the Commune. A poor boy. he started work at 14 in a stained-glass factory. The experience helped shape his art. in which the world gleams like colored bits of broken bottles. At 20, Rouault quit his job to study painting at the feet of a sympathetic academician named Gustave Moreau, who gave him solid training and a word of hard advice: "Give thanks to God that...
Part of the reason goes back to the lack of enthusiasm with which the picture was greeted in its early years. Whistler packed it off to the 1872 show of the Royal Academy in London, where the Academicians promptly consigned it to the cellar, "down among the dead men." until one committeeman persuaded his reluctant colleagues that it deserved a showing. When Whistler got his Mother back, he pawned it (along with three other paintings) in 1878, then found that he could not do without his Mummy, and redeemed her for ?50. In the early 1880s the picture was exhibited...
Noah's Basement. In Canandaigua, N.Y., after neighbors complained that Mrs. Coddie Hunt's pets were making too much noise, she revealed that she had in her cellar three dogs, 34 cats, a dozen roosters and guinea hens, and two calves...
Hothead. In Leeds, England, Edna Illingworth got a divorce after testifying that her husband Richard 1) tied her up in the cellar, 2) bound her hands to a nail above her head, and 3) doused her with a bucketful of water "to cool...