Word: gainsboroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sonja Henie herself owned a Gainsborough and a Renoir before she married Onstad, but to her own surprise she quickly caught her husband's enthusiasm for more contemporary art. Since their marriage, the collection has more than doubled, and almost all of the new acquisitions have been abstract. "At first, I guess it was a kind of sport," says Sonja of her purchases. "Just to tease my husband. Very soon it became something more. I became fascinated by the abstract things and felt I understood their meaning...
Sonja Henie's own favorite works these days are the flamboyant but powerful abstractions of Russian-born Nicolas de Stael. She owns seven of them-quite a change from Messrs. Gainsborough and Renoir...
Only last March, Gainsborough...
English portraits of the 18th century were once among the bluest of blue chips in the art market. In 1921, U.S. Railroad Heir Henry E. Huntington plunked down better than $500,000 for Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy, setting the record for English canvases. Hundreds of other rich Americans were supplying themselves with high-priced ancestral portraits from England at about the same time. But the fashion waned and almost disappeared until last week, when Gainsborough's Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews fetched a fat $364,000 at auction in London...