Word: daly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sculpture that caused the most goggling was a copy of the one that most Greeks thought they knew best the Louvre's Venus de Milo. This ver sion, however, was by Spain's Salvador Dali, so of course there was a difference. Dali had put drawers on her. Here and there he had cut out sections and turned them into sliding compartments. One visitor, proceeding on the premise that drawers are for opening, pulled out Venus' forehead, breasts and stomach before a horrified guard could stop...
...Greeks even decided that Dali's Venus was fun, and with 60,000 visitors in three weeks, the exhibition has proved an immense success -with everyone, that is, except young Greek lovers. The Hill of Muses has long been their favorite nocturnal rendezvous. There has been much grumbling from those who have found themselves confronted in the dark of night with the likes of Barbara Hepworth's looming Sea Form, which looks like a shield with holes in it, or Pablo Gargallo's St. John the Baptist, a strident bronze whose every jutting piece stands ready...
...will emphasize contemporary art, will open with an 800-work, $750,000 collection that includes etchings, engravings, lithographs and woodcuts by Braque, Chagall, Miró and Luigini. In their three-month search through Europe and the U.S. to assemble the collection, Woolworth's buyers also picked up Salvador Dali's $30,000 Triumph of the Sea, and a $24,000 Gainsborough called Dr. Pulteney. Anyone who does not have that kind of cash, of course, will still be able to enter almost any Woolworth store and buy, from the chain's collection of reproductions, Gainsborough...
...fingers dripping rings and ruby polish, she held business conferences in her 26-room Park Avenue triplex, propped up in a garish bed whose Incite head-and footboard glowed under fluorescent light. Yet she vastly appreciated art, and acquired an extensive collection that included Renoir, Renault, Modigliani and Dali. Her jewelry was valued at $1,000,000, but she liked to mix dime-store baubles with antique pieces that once belonged to Catherine the Great...
Right from the start the mood was bullish. First up were European blue chips: a Kandinsky watercolor went for $7,200, a Salvador Dali watercolor reached an extraordinary $11,500, and a fine 1921 Mondrian peaked at $42,000. Then Russian-born Nicolas de Staël, who jumped out his studio window in 1955, sent bids skyrocketing when his semi-abstraction, Fleurs, soared to $68,000 to set a new record. In all, four works by De Staël brought...