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...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 scene of two nudes sunbathing, then faked in Monet's scene, "aged" it in front of a gas stove...
...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, since impressionists were held in such low regard in the later 1800s. Value of the picture on today's market: at least...
Paris' Gare du Nord to the center of Brussels aboard the He de France or the Etoile du Nord, the busy businessman can unwind in uncrowded 40-passenger cars; he gets first-class meals served at his seat, can dictate to a TEE-provided stenographer and make telephone calls...
...skyscraper, constructed of concrete and glass trimmed with bronze-anodized aluminum, will form the central element in the $160 million Maine-Montparnasse redevelopment project being built on the site of the gutted Gare Montparnasse. It will import from New York City the shape, roughly, of the Pan Am Building, the color and texture of Mies van der Robe's Seagram tower. The skyscraper complex will include a five-story, 250-room hotel, a department store, restaurants, galleries, shops, a skating rink, a movie theater and a 1,500-car underground parking lot. Near by will be two office-apartment...
...University is giving no consideration to purchasing insurance covering individual student's belongings." L. Gare Wiggina, administrative vice president, old a press conference yesterday...