Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nymphs, Not Steam Engines." In 1914 at the age of 30, Segonzac finally held a one-man show. Paris was impressed (one collector so much so that he immediately bought several pictures), and Segonzac became a lion of the French art world. His friends were the cubists and Fauvists-Picasso, Vlaminck, Braque, Dufy-but he never let his wilder and woollier pals influence his painting, kept strictly to gentle landscapes, still lifes, and romantic nudes. Once, Poet Guillaume Apollinaire, an ardent advocate of cubism, urged him to join the movement. "Our modern age, the age of aviation," he argued, "should...
...career as a Vincentian missionary. For the next 46 years, Father Adolph Buch kept himself busy teaching, preaching, training young Chinese priests, organizing medical dispensaries, and helping to care for the sick, the poor and the helpless. In the midst of his tasks, he found time to become a collector of butterflies as well...
...London's Tate Gallery, none is more famed than Rodin's The Kiss. Rodin had three carvings made of his white-marble couple, and the one at the Tate is the last and best. There was a public furor in 1913 when its owner, a private collector named Edward Warren, lent it for exhibition in a Sussex town hall: local puritans draped a sheet over the nude figures. But since 1939, The Kiss has stood in prominent and honored display in the Tate's hall of sculpture. Britons are used to it now-and proud...
...Collector Warren never gave up title to the masterpiece, and now his heir, a man named Asa Thomas, has decided to sell. Foreign bidders, said Owner Thomas, have long tempted him with offers, one for ?12,000 ($33,600), but he much preferred to sell to the Tate. He set a rock-bottom Tate price of ?7,500, gave the gallery a three-month option to raise the money. Tate trustees looked hard at their treasury. They could put up ?2,000 toward the price, they decided, but would have to call on the public for the remaining...
Naguib, who had sent troops to rout Farouk, had sent a tax collector to rout Nahas. How, the confident investigator asked Nahas, had he managed to accumulate his huge wealth-two palaces and a large farm? Nervously, Nahas insisted that he was personally poor; the investigator would have to see his wife. Madame Nahas explained that she had made the family fortune by dealing in buffaloes. Unusual trade, murmured the investigator, and how had she got together her original capital? A 10,000-pound (Egyptian) wedding gift from her husband, she snapped. The investigator folded his papers. Everyone knew that...