Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dealer David Stein, 31, on 97 charges of counterfeiting and grand larceny. Stein may never have sold a painting to Meadows, but according to the D.A.'s office, he painted, signed and faked the papers for 33 Chagalls, seven Picassos, and one Matisse, unloading them on five other collectors and seven dealers for $165,800. Among those who bought from Stein were Colonel Edgar Garbisch, a leading collector of American primitives, who paid $14,000 for an unpretentious little Picasso for his wife's dressing room, and the E.J. Korvette discount chain...
...other new highs at Sotheby's: a Cézanne watercolor still life of a milk jug and apples, which brought $406,000-the highest price ever paid for any watercolor at auction. Since the bidder was a Los Angeles dealer, people speculated that he had acted for Collector Norton Simon, who remained mum. A Degas bronze horse pranced off for a record price of $51,800. A Chagall picture (circa 1917) brought $84,000, a new record for him. All in all, Sotheby's knocked down for $2,962,960, 87 works of art, a record...
...play, Zindoolooland Forever, a story about a successful revolt against a tyrant that turns into another dictatorship. For example one character recounts the deeds of the revolutionaries: "First they got the governor, then they seized the mayor, and finally they captured the most important official of all--the garbage collector. The whole town started smelling so bad after a few days that everyone rioted...
...collector and rebuilder of limp companies, California Industrialist Norton Simon owns an unrivaled record of success. From the tomato-paste base of his Hunt Foods, he has strung together an empire of two dozen corporations from publishing (McCall Corp.) to soft drinks (Canada Dry) to containers (Knox Glass). Almost every company that Simon has bought into has prospered and he has hung on to all of his major acquisitions...
Robert C. Scull, collector of op, pop, and other art forms, will speak on "The Direction of Contemporary Art" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland...