Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 50 U.S. local and national Jew ish organizations have been searching continually for sculptors or architects to design a suitable monument. Finally, three years ago, a formal Committee to Commemorate the Six Million Jewish Martyrs was set up. The art advisory committee, under the chairmanship of Washington Insuranceman-Collector David Lloyd Kreeger, had no difficulty in agreeing on Philadelphia Architect Louis I. Kahn. Last week a six-foot scale model of Kahn's proposed monument was put on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...market is still roaring upwards and testing previous highs. Last week the center of action was Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, where one blue chip found a dynamic investor willing to bid it up to a new record price. The buyer was California Collector-Industrialist Norton Simon, who paid $1,550,000 for Auguste Renoir's Le Pont des Arts, upsetting the previous auction record for impressionist paintings, set by the Metropolitan Museum when it paid $1,410,000 for Monet's The Terrace at Ste. Adresse a year...
What keeps the art market boiling is the knowledge that Renoir's Le Pont des Arts cost only $19,500 when its previous owner, Manhattan Collector Mrs. W. Clifford Klenk, bought it in 1941. The inevitable result has been to pull into the bull market a host of amateur speculators. To satisfy them, dealers are hustling out the "cats and dogs," in Wall Street parlance: stocks with a glamorous look but shaky prospects...
Syndicate Specialist. A Manhattan-born Quaker, Helmsley grew up in The Bronx, joined the firm he now heads after leaving high school at 16. Rising from office boy to rent collector to building manager to broker, he performed so well that his name went on the company's title before he was 30. Later, as a specialist in syndicate purchasing, Helmsley joined with Lawrence Wien, a Manhattan lawyer and investor, and began putting together his realty domain. The Empire State Building, which they bought in 1961 for $65 million, is the crown jewel, but their widespread holdings include shopping...
...Review come upon this incisive but altogether forgotten Frenchman? Pretty much by happenstance, says Editor Barbara Epstein. Painter Leonid Berman, an old friend who has a cherished collection of Grandville's il lustrated books (all now collector's items), proposed Grandville. Delighted with Grandville's rangy repertoire, Editor Epstein has published his drawings in nearly every issue since...