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...tale begins with an impasse. The man who is trying to write the life of the late Francis Chegwidden Cornish, a distinguished art collector and connoisseur, finds himself stymied. It is bad enough that he has turned up hints of fakery in Cornish's long and otherwise exemplary career. These suspicions, if proved and published, will offend the immensely rich and powerful Cornish family and sully the reputation of the Cornish Trust, one of Canada's most respectable financial institutions. Worse, the aspiring biographer must admit that he cannot determine the influences that molded his man. Research has led only...
...prodigality of the Marcos regime. Some of the paintings hanging from the walls had been appropriated at will by the Marcoses from the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Scrapbooks contained photographs of properties in New York City and London, presumably belonging to the royal couple. Bea Zobel, an art collector who led volunteers in sorting through the Marcoses' possessions, noted that Imelda may have spent as much as several million dollars on jewels and antiques in a single day. Given her husband's official salary of $5,700 a year, such a shopping spree amounted to more than 500 years' income...
...Winning bid of Peter Siegel, a memorabilia collector, for the contract that sent Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees...
...moon, and people want a piece of you. It can get to a guy. For Apollo 11 commander NEIL ARMSTRONG, the fiber that finished him was hair. An Ohio barber sold clippings of Armstrong's hair for $3,000 to a middleman, who got them to a Connecticut collector of curls from Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Marilyn Monroe and others. When news got back to Armstrong, he had his lawyer shoot a letter to the barber demanding the return of his hair or a $3,000 donation to charity. But the barber had already spent the cash, and the collector...
...date, time and wind conditions on the back. He encouraged his friend Monet to try the same technique, an experiment that culminated in Monet's widely acclaimed variations on the Houses of Parliament in London and the waterlilies at his home in Giverny. Senn, an opinionated and eclectic collector, appears to have bought Boudin's work because he liked it, not just to support homegrown talent. He didn't seem to care for other artists with local connections like Dufy or Georges Braque. Occasionally, Senn fell for something avant garde, like Felix Vallotton's 1898 The Waltz. And who wouldn...