Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendés-France's government retorted with statistics showing that four out of five of France's 1,540,000 artisans and small businessmen (who are famed for keeping two sets of records, one to run their businesses by, the other to show the tax collector) declared an average net profit of only $89 a month in 1952, whereas even office employees received an average $104 a month. "A presumption of fraud weighs heavily on tradesmen and artisans," said the government. But in southern and southwestern France, unabashed Poujade vigilantes went right on chasing tax collectors down...
...Collector Freer (who died in 1919) had a hawk eye for Oriental art, his eye for American painting suffered a Victorian squint. Today Freer officials blush a bit at the gallery's American collection and turn purple when forced to admit that the public favorite at the Freer is Abbott Thayer's Virgin (opposite...
...Collector Dale says he visited Dali's latest show with "no idea of buying a Dali," found himself "bowled over" by an impressive, 6-ft.-tall painting of the Crucifixion. Says Dale: "I can't explain it except in one way-when it hits me, it hits me hard. It is a very honest picture, very great." Dale decided to buy it, reportedly paid about...
...market for modern art is booming as never before. Some startling particulars of the boom were ticked off this week by Collector-Critic James Thrall Soby, writing in the Saturday Review: "If the prices for Matisse, Picasso, Rouault and Bonnard have tripled or quadrupled since the war, those of some of their less overwhelming colleagues have soared in far greater proportion ... A Kandinsky costing less than $1,000 in 1930 would now fetch about $8,000; a Mondrian actually bought by an American museum 20 years ago for $400 would be almost $10,000 today . . . Paul Klees, which used...
...short stories wears the scent of human garbage as if it were the latest Parisian perfume. Peopled with male and female prostitutes, harridans and homosexuals, the book first appeared in 1948 in a deluxe limited edition of 1,500 copies, has since brought $50 a copy as a raffish collector's item. While the edition is now no longer limited, the guiding theme undoubtedly is. Author Williams, 40, best known for his plays, snaps his literary shutter again and again on portraits of the hero as cripple, and on the human personality in states of hopeless, neurotic disrepair...