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...finished product. Over the years he has also learned to unite copper and iron, and graft brightly colored mosaics into his metal creations. An admirer of Calder's mobiles, Lardera says: "Where Calder really introduces movement, I try to give the impression of movement." His current show at Knoedler's is an exhibition of 22 welded pieces of sculpture whose geometric designs express the purely formal relationship of planes, lines and space plus their textural appeal. As one Lardera supporter put it, to look for any literary meaning in his work "is to look for moonlight...
...Gladys Lloyd Robinson art collection for $3,250,000 (TIME, March 4), was finally cleared up. Not very silent on a peak in St. Moritz, Greek Shipping Tycoon Stavros Spyros Niarchos let it be known last week that he is the collector for whom Manhattan's M. Knoedler & Co. Inc. bought 58 paintings and a bronze from Movie Tough Guy Robinson...
...unique deal. Obligated to realize the cash value of the collection under the terms of a divorce settlement, Art Lover Robinson sold it through Knoedler's, then bought back for himself 14 paintings worth an estimated $500,000. For the works Niarchos acquired, the price was about $2,500,000. Estimated commission to Knoedler's: $250,000. To help the highly emotional Robinsons reach agreement with each other and with a buyer, Knoedler's had assigned a mobile task force to the transaction (one man to Robinson, another to his wife, a third to Niarchos) and worked...
...directed that their communal property be equally divided. But Movie Tough-Guy Robinson, unable to part with all his pictures ("I would like to keep them all"), held on to 14 of them. The balance of the collection-58 paintings and one bronze-went to Manhattan's M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. A mystery remained. Nobody would say whether Knoedler's had bought for itself or for an undisclosed syndicate...
...Giverny studio (where several collected shrapnel holes during World War II). The fresh supply set off a scramble that one U.S. buyer called "a regular gold rush; the prices seemed to go up 1,000,000 francs a week." By the end of 1956 Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries had sold all but one of its 15 Monets, with top price reportedly as high...