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...Manolo readjusted to poverty. One story has it that he actually pinched a painting from the Louvre, and Picasso returned it to the police. Another time, invited to live with Painter Paco Durio, Manolo took advantage of his friend's absence to sell off Durio's Gauguin collection. "When circumstances became more favorable," explained Manolo in later years, "I stopped doing inelegant things forever. I never thought to steal after...
Your June 24 article on road builders is a marvel of reporting, and the six pages in color are masterpieces which merit the heading "American Art." To make space for them in your Art section, you could have moved Gauguin's Still Life with Apples (a $297,000 gyp) into Business...
...were enough to make a collector see green. The 45 paintings brought in $874,000 (plus $147,000 in taxes), three times as much as the auctioneer had anticipated, and one of the canvases was sold for the highest known price ever paid for a modern painting. The painting: Gauguin's Still Life with Apples. (1901), a platter of succulent, Cézannesque green apples on an opulent green tablecloth. It went to Greek-American Shipping Executive Basil Peter Goulandris for $297,000 (plus 16.7% in taxes). Mrs. Biddle had bought the Gauguin in 1953 at Manhattan...
...Gauguin's Landscape with Rose Tree, Pont-Aven...
...Gauguin's Still Life with Apples and Grapes...