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Newest name to be linked with Eliza beth Taylor is, of all people, Vincent Van Gogh. Liz's yen for the finer things crept into the news when California Art Dealer Francis Taylor, representing his daughter, traipsed off to Sotheby's London auction rooms and paid $257,600 for a Van Gogh landscape, View of the Asylum and Chapel of St. Remy. Already on loan from Liz to the Los Angeles Museum are a Renoir, a Cassatt, a Modigliani, a Rouault and a Frans Hals...
...Spirit." He arrived in Cologne as the show was being dismantled, but he saw enough to inspire him. "Van Gogh's work enthralled me." he wrote, "I met the sculptor Lehmbruck and secured some of his sculptures, also works by Munch." In The Hague, he saw works by Odilon Redon for the first time; then he went to Paris, where he teamed up with Painter Walter Pach and also wired Davies to come over and help him. The Americans "practically lived in taxicabs." They met the brothers Duchamp-Villon and the dealer Ambroise Vollard. They persuaded Constantin Brancusi...
...tired of him, but the Prudential Life Insurance Co. is "thrilled" that he's still on the boards. He doesn't really need his glasses, he said vainly, except for the hearing aids in the rims. Crowing about his musical skill, he said he was "the Van Gogh of the concert circuit," or, as one fan had put it, "He's lost...
...violence confined to the university grounds. The student terrorist organization is closely linked to the FALN (Armed Front for National Liberation), which in the last six months has destroyed an oil refinery, burned a Sears Roebuck warehouse, plundered an exhibition of Van Gogh and Cezanne paintings, hijacked the freighter Anzoategul, and performed numerous other acts of violence...
...Occupying it are men who normally would be under maximum security. Yet this tier is the only one in which the cells are left unlocked at night. Each 4-ft. by 8-ft. cubicle is spick-and-span. On the walls, instead of calendar nudes, are reproductions of Van Gogh and art work done by the inmates. Neither Fogliani nor the prison guard captain visits the Synanon tier unless invited...