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...FRANCIS-Jackson, 32 East 69th. Francis translates the furious vitality of his abstract expressionism into bright, brash prints. Reds, yellows, blues and greens splash across new lithographs; one, Bright Jade, Gold, Ghost, resplendent in five colors, is shown in five variations. Through...
...Rochas looks and lives as a perfume queen should. Now 43, she has wide cornflower-blue eyes, an engaging smile, a mannequin's figure, a fragile air -and the business reputation of a panther. Her Paris apartment glitters like an open jewel box. Eggs made of jade and amethyst nest on a coffee table, and an 18th century chandelier supports candles set in gold. One night, Premier Georges Pompidou and Franchise Sagan may come to dinner, the next Marlene Dietrich and Gian Carlo Menotti...
...could tell at a glance whether a fragment came from a Nabataean water bottle or a cooking pot from the days of Joshua. He still has this ability, and when he picks up a potsherd, he handles it as tenderly as a Chinese esthete caressing a piece of jade. "Pottery is man's most enduring material," he says with emotion. "Wood disappears, stone crumbles, glass decays, metal corrodes. Only pottery lasts forever...
Died. Leslie Abraham Hyam, 62, president since 1953 of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a London-born patrician who helped found the art auction house in 1937, taking as his fields Chinese jade, French furniture and English flower painting; of a heart attack; in Canaan, Conn...
...Pagliai lives like the fiscal prince that he is. His showplace home in suburban Mexico City is a white brick Georgian mansion, graced with 14 live-in servants and 50 imported Italian umbrella cypresses planted in holes blasted into lava rock. Besides collecting pesos, he acquires Dresden figurines, Chinese jade, Venetian glass and ancient Spanish books that he often pores over until 2 a.m. His house also shelters Mexico's most distinguished selection of wines (7,000 bottles) and its finest private art collection-El Greco, Botticelli, Van Dyck, Dali, Diego Rivera-as well as Pagliai's picturesque...