Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the Riviera hill town of L'Estaque. It was the sort ot keen observation of nature that Cézanne captured consummately in oils And last week, eighty years after he finished it, his Houses at L'Estaque sold for $800,000 to a private U.S. collector at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries It was a world's record for a Cézanne and the highlight of the biggest money-making art auction in recent history...
...Auto-Journal observed that by bringing the car "into the classic line of everyman's car, Rolls no longer strikes the eye and thus loses a great part of its singularity and originality." Paris' Le Monde regretted that "Rolls is losing little by little its character of collector's item by making sacrifices to progress...
...COLLECTOR. Terence Stamp plays a butterfly collector who tries to get a girl (Samantha Eggar) into his killing bottle...
...Italy's Egidio Costantini, a balding man in his 50s, this persistent bell ringing has opened the doors of some of the world's most renowned artists-Oskar Kokoschka, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Luis Fontana, Yves Klein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso. No avid autograph seeker nor voracious collector, Costantini is a contemporary Venetian visionary out to restore the grandeur that was glass four centuries ago (see color...
...well I don't need his drawings any more." Switching furnaces to keep other glassmakers from copying his methods, Costantini limits each sculpture to an edition of three-one for the artist (who must approve it), one for himself (to sell when the price is right), one for Collector Peggy Guggenheim, an early benefactress of the project. Then he adds his finishing touches. To give a wizened patina to Picasso's sprightly nymphs and fauns, he dipped the little people in acid baths. Now their skins look aged and lived...