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Remember those stories last month about Hans Kiesel, the lucky West German businessman who bought a grimy oil of a couple of nudes at the flea market in Paris for $40, only to discover a long-lost Monet hidden beneath it? The find was fully restored and authenticated by experts at the respected Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. One of the great impressionist's Gare St. Lazare paintings, it was dated 1877 and worth possibly $1,000,000. Well, last week Kiesel gleefully announced that it was all a rib. An artist friend had first removed the original...
...POSTER done last year for A Flea In Her Ear McClelland's art articulately advertises that the play was gay and bawdy and lively. His fuchsia and orange design, which includes an upside-down Art Nouveau lady with the usual flowing tresses, also proves his ability to organize a graphically coherent page. Highly original title letters with lacy curlings serifs and a plump curved "Georges Feydeau" add more Art Nouveau-type curvilinears appropriate to the late 19th century French farce...
...Graduate--Mike Nichols' film about where Joe DiMaggio went. Too big for its britches. At the PARK SQUARE CINEMA, 31 St. James Ave. (542-2220). Flea in Her Ear--The Georges Feydeau farce, butchered in this Jacques Charon film. Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Roberts and Louis Jourdan are stuck in it. At the CINEMA KENMORE SQUARE...
...Flea in Her Ear--The Georges Feydeau farce, butchered in this Jacques Charon film. Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Roberts and Louis Jourdan are stuck in it. At the CINEMA KENMORE SQUARE...
This is a story that every art collector, big and little, dreams of. At the flea market in Paris, a West German businessman buys a painting of two sunbathing nudes for $40. The picture is grimy, so he scrubs it with a strong solvent. Behold, a blue shimmer of paint appears below the surface, and a professional restorer uncovers a remarkable signature-"Claude Monet, 1877." Now fully restored, the canvas appears to be one of Monet's largest impressionistic versions of Paris' Gare St. Lazare. But how did Monet ever get covered over? Easy: it was the vogue...