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...gasps began at Sotheby's on Nov. 10, when Jasper John's Out the Window sold for $3.6 million, the highest sum ever paid for the work of a living artist. Last week the old master drawings owned by John Ryan Gaines, a Kentucky horse breeder and the son of the founder of the Gaines dog-food company, fetched $21 million. The top seller: Leonardo da Vinci's Child with a Lamb, a group of sketches in brown ink, which was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., for $3.6 million...
...street from the hospital into a specially equipped apartment, where he lived with his wife and was attended by nurses and technicians. That idyll lasted barely a month before a second stroke. Again he fought back and eventually he was able to make a trip to his hometown of Jasper, Ind., to serve as a parade grand marshal. He went fishing with his sons and Artificial Heart Developer Robert Jarvik and celebrated his 33rd wedding anniversary at a Louisville restaurant...
...potential recipients of permanent artificial pumps have been given transplants. He remains convinced of the need for a permanent artificial device. With FDA permission for three more operations, he is looking for the next candidate. Says DeVries, who gave the eulogy at Schroeder's funeral in Jasper last weekend: "It's always sad to see someone you love leave, but he has given us a new motivation...
...itself--however obliquely or eccentrically--to nature. But its relation to nature did not look simple. The painting was no botanical illustration. It was full of pictorial feeling and seemed only part factual, with the studied ineloquence, the refusal to grab a viewer's lapels, that one gets in Jasper Johns or Cy Twombly. Its drawing was casual, but intelligently so. It used botany obscurely, for some ulterior end--but what? And did it look better than it was for being surrounded by trash? To test that, one had to wait for a full show. That exhibit...
...Crimson was down, 73-68, with 55 seconds remaining, but a parade of Jasper free throw shooters built the difference up to its final 12 points...