Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That candidate appears to be Francis Kenneth Lloyd, founder of Marlborough Gallery Inc. and the most powerful international art dealer to have emerged since World War II (TIME, June...
...Rothko paintings were sold to the Liechtenstein firm of Galleria Bernini (two of whose directors also sit on the boards of four Marlborough shells). The Galleria paid $140,000 for them, of which the estate received $84,000. But Mrs. Paul Mellon wanted those very Rothkos so ardently, Lloyd testified, that Marlborough bought them back from Galleria Bernini for a whopping $420,000 and then resold them to her for that amount. "Since the price was so high," Lloyd said with benign altruism, "I didn't want to profit from it." Yet if the sale to Mrs. Mellon...
...Lloyd began as the insouciant star of the courtroom. The atmosphere be came heavier last week as the plaintiffs' attorney Edward Ross pressed on with the contention that Marlborough, anticipating a preliminary injunction barring further sales on consignment without the court's permission, had cooked up some complex deals to remove 35 Rothkos from the court's jurisdiction. Not so, said Lloyd, producing documents to show that in January and February of 1972 - months before the injunction was is sued in June - he had sold the 35 Rothkos to four wealthy collectors, including 20 to Italian Industrialist...
...been sold, they would have been out of U.S. jurisdiction. In Ross's view, this haste suggests an intent to de fraud. In Marlborough's, it is merely evidence of a brisk desire to keep the decks cleared by moving sold commodities along. At the trial, Lloyd produced car bons of several documents substantiating his side of the story and contended that the Rothkos' arrival in New York was caused by the blunder of someone in the Paris museum ("I'm not responsible for the French government making a mistake"). Other discrepancies of documents and dating...
...verve and a broad comic style. The nimblest of all is Dale, a versatile actor, British TV comic and composer (Georgy Girl). In his facial contortions and his airborne, aisle-hopping feats, he is a direct descendant of the great physical clowns-unforgettables like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton. It does not require much prophetic vision to foresee that Jim Dale will share the same renown some day. · T.E-K...