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Recently London Art Dealer David Carritt, 30, flipping idly through the Bacon Collection catalogue, was struck by a curious resemblance. The lion in the back of the painting was similar to one drawn by Germany's famed Gothic draftsman Albrecht Dürer. Invited down to tea to examine the painting at first hand, Art Dealer Carritt was certain. Other experts were called in, agreed. The painting, which proved to be in almost perfect condition, was estimated to be worth $560,000. Asked if he intended to sell, Sir Edmund, possessor not only...
Died. Maurice Sterne (real name: Schlossberg), 79, Russian-born painter, sculptor and draftsman, who painted (1935-40) the 20 huge murals in the Department of Justice library in Washington, at one time received $10,000-$12,000 a painting, his work growing abruptly more impressionistic and evocative during World War II; after long illness; in Mount Kisco...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 15--A legal expert of the Swedish Atomic Energy Commission and a former navy draftsman were formally charged today with espionage for "a foreign power," presumably meaning Soviet Russia...
...indictment accused the nuclear lawyer, Robert F. Damstedt, 29, and draftsman Gosta T. Jakabsson, 35, of conspiring to ship out blueprints of Swedish submarines. It made no mention of any transmission of atomic secrets...
...Chicago that Boston-born Louis Sullivan first saw as a fledgling draftsman of 17 was a vast expanse of gutted ruins, the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1871. Sidewalks were temporary wooden structures; pavements oozed mud. But for Sullivan it was love at first sight. He could foresee that up from the ruins would burgeon a new city...