Word: gobelin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only to have Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos raise the bid to more than $3,000,000 (TIME. March 11, 1957). But under Brown's quarterbacking, new pieces have come pouring in (including Fragonard's Mademoiselle Colombe as Venus from Marion Davies, an early Rembrandt and four outstanding Gobelin tapestries from Oil Tycoon J. Paul Getty). Attendance has swelled to over 1,000,000 a year...
After Johannes died, son Caspar bought the nearby Palace, later turned it over to his 22-year-old son Hans, who furnished it with Gobelin tapestries, the finest crystals, magnificent antiques. In the palmy days before and after World War I the Palace became a kind of winter home for the very rich and the very royal. The Maharaja of Hyderabad would arrive with 500 trunks and a personal cook, who sprinkled gold dust on the rice before serving his master's curry. On arriving, the Aga Khan would give Head Porter Chasper $10,000 to be handed...
...decorate its spacious social rooms, the opera ordered 13 new Gobelin tapestries. Not that there is a shortage of tapestries in Vienna-there are hundreds lying around in vaults-but museum officials refused to let any go. "First thing you know," said a grumpy museum spokesman, "people will be rubbing their cigarettes out on them." It hardly seems likely. For, in the words of the Metropolitan's Rudolf Bing, a Viennese himself, "The Vienna Opera means to the Viennese what women mean to Don Giovanni. It is the air they breathe, the food they eat, and the girl they...
Boucher's patroness was Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour, and the artist worked furiously to keep up with her demands and those of the court-decorations for chateaux, scenery for opera and theater, lush paintings of nudes, and tapestry designs for the revived Gobelin and 54 Beauvais works. But his talent for rendering sensuous and elegant women in symbolic attitudes is best seen in his drawings, where quick pencil strokes catch the freshness and spontaneity of his inspiration...
...ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain. Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli is the donor of a Goya, a Manet, two Renoirs, a Rodin bronze, two Toulouse-Lautrecs, a Degas and a Ceézanne; the Jafet family (iron) has come through with a Tintoretto, a Renoir and a Gobelin tapestry; Bank President (and former Ambassador to the U.S.) Walther Moreira Salles is donor of a Picasso, a Degas and a Modigliani; Sugar Magnate Fulvio Morganti is down for a Utrillo; Financier Adriano Seabra gave a Titian. In all, persuasive Chato has roped in 381 donors, including nine banks, 38 industrial...