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Died. Waldo Peirce, 85. American impressionist painter, a bewhiskered giant of a man noted as much for his exuberant life-style as for his bold, spontaneous art; of pneumonia; in Newburyport, Mass. Peirce lived with all the verve and gusto of his lifelong friend and traveling companion Ernest Hemingway, even to the point of taking four wives and running with the bulls at Pamplona. His splashy, sensuously colored paintings, said one critic, "smell of sweat and sound like laughter...
While the rest of the economy suffers depressions, the art market soars. At an auction last week in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, buyers spent $5,852,250 for 72 Impressionist and modern paintings, another $906,375 for 19th and 20th century sculpture. The biggest sale was Van Gogh's Le Cypres et I'Arbre en Fleurs, a sun-touched landscape he painted in the asylum at St. Remy in the last busy and desperate year of his life. It is a relatively small canvas (20¼ in. by 25½ in.), certainly...
Every known Raphael or Bruegel has long since found a permanent home. But there is still a floating supply of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works that demonstrate the buyer's sound yet "modern" taste. As a result, there seems no way for such works to go but up. Even the $230,000 paid for a minor Matisse, Fete des Fleurs a Nice, more than doubled the artist's record price of $106,152, set only a year ago. For Impressionists, the trade's present rule of thumb is that what $1 would buy in 1893 would cost...
Lately, however, there have been signs that Annenberg's early gaucheries are being corrected. Press criticism is ebbing. Recently, he loaned his excellent collection of French Impressionist paintings to the Tate Gallery for an exhibition. During Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit to Washington last week, Annenberg stayed very much in the background, in proper ambassadorial style. His grasp of foreign policy issues still seems shaky, but his staffers acknowledge his executive abilities. "He runs the embassy like a chairman of the board," says one official. "He's one of the best organizational ambassadors...
Make no mistake about it, David Frye is a master impressionist who has what it takes these days: Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, William F. Buckley, George Wallace and Nelson Rockefeller. In the world of impressions and mimicry, where a good line is usually the shortest distance between Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck, Frye bobs and weaves among the political heavyweights armed with perfect pitch and deadly accuracy...