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...villa that houses the E.G. Bührle collection is in keeping with its quiet residential neighborhood in Zurich. But it doesn't begin to betray the priceless treasure inside: one of the world's most impressive private collections of European art, with works by Delacroix, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Gauguin, Canaletto, Braque, Signac, Picasso and other masters from the 16th to the 20th centuries...
...some enterprising locals, however, the change is a business opportunity: The Roussard Gallery sells authentic Montmartre cobbles decorated with Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec prints for up to 130 euros ($178) a piece, and gallery owner Denis Roussard says they're selling like hot cakes. "The area is changing fast," says Roussard, "so people want to buy a memento of the old Montmartre before it disappears entirely." ng about them and, most recently, Am?lie did her shopping on them. But icon of Paris though the centuries-old cobblestones of Montmartre may be, they are being removed as part of a council...
...some enterprising locals, however, the change is a business opportunity: The Roussard Gallery sells authentic Montmartre cobbles decorated with Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec prints for up to 130 euros ($178) a piece, and gallery owner Denis Roussard says they're selling like hot cakes. "The area is changing fast," says Roussard, "so people want to buy a memento of the old Montmartre before it disappears entirely...
...history of art is strung together by the travel logs of the masters: Velásquez arriving in Rome, Gauguin going native in Tahiti, Picasso setting off for the lights of Paris. Inevitably, though, no matter how far they go or how long they stay away, every artist's body of work reflects the tension between all the expeditions and the home turf where the journey began...
...presale estimate of $40 million to $60 million. Three other Klimts--part of a collection stolen by the Nazis during World War II and recently returned to the owner's heirs--fetched a combined $104 million. An anonymous moneybags phoned in a $40.3 million winning bid for Paul Gauguin's Man with an Ax--a record for that artist. "We were flabbergasted by the prices," says New York art dealer Dominique Levy. "The bidding was coming from everywhere. It was an electric evening...